WWW::CheckSite::Manual 0.019_52

WWW::CheckSite::Manual offers a description of the metrics used in this package.

The idea behind this package is to provide an analysis of items contained in a web-site. We use the word kwalitee because it looks and sounds like quality but just isn't. The metrics used to assess kwalitee only give an indication of the technical state a web-site is in, and do not reflect on the user experience of quality of that web-site.

At the heart of the package is the spider that fetches all the pages referred to within the web-site. For each page that is fetched a number of things is checked. Here is an explanation of the kwalitee metrics:

* return status

 The most basic check for a web-page is to see if it can be fetched. The HTTP return-status should be 200 OK.

 SCORE: 0 for return status other than 200; 1 for return status 200
* title

 The next check is to see if the tag-pair has content.

 SCORE: 0 for not content; 1 for content
* valid

 The next check is to see if the (X)HTML in the page validates. The default behaviour is to use the validator available on http://validator.w3.org

 SCORE: 0 for not valid, 1 for valid or validation disabled
* links

 The next check is to see if the web-page does not contain "dead links".

 All hyperlinks (, _fcksavedurl=>, ) are checked with a HTTP HEAD request to see if they can be "followed". URLs that have the same origin as the primary url will also be put on the "to-fetch-list" of the spider.

 MAX SCORE: 1 (do not count urls excluded by robot-rules/exclude pattern)
* images

 The next check is to see if the web-page does not contain "dead images".

 All images (, _fcksavedurl=>, ) are checked with a HTTP HEAD request to see if they exist on the server. If the Image::Info module is available, the image is fetched from the server and a basic sanity test on the image is done.

 MAX SCORE: 1 (do not count images excluded by robot-rules/exclude pattern)
* styles

 The next check is to see if the web-page does not contain "dead style references".

 All styles referenced in are fetched and if validation is switched on, they will be sent to the css-validator at: http://jigsaw.w3.org/validator

 TODO: Extract inline styles, and send them of for validation.

 MAX SCORE: 1
kwalitee

 Every individual page can have a maximum of 6 kwalitee points that lead to a kwalitee of 1.00. For the complete web-site the mean of the page scores is taken and presented as a fraction of 1.


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