Percentage marks represent the proportion of tested pages that (pass/fail) (ALL/ANY) automated accessibility or eGMS metadata tests.

Weekly and monthly Sitemorse reports are generally not run to a specific schedule as our catalogue of tests is always increasing. If you require your test to be run at a regular time please contact us.

Warnings are problems in the page code and frequently are violations of W3C or IETF standards and commonly affect the visual display of your site or slow it down.

The exact overall score takes account of all the Sitemorse tests

Many people that responded to our Client Survey earlier this year said they didn't use the information on the Inventory Tab or didn't know what it was for.

It would be useful to go through the information on this page and explain how it could be useful.

The Inventory Tab essentially gives you an Inventory of what was found as Sitemorse analysed the pages covered by the report. It's purpose is to tell you what was found so that you know what's there in order for you to validate that what's there should be there. We've had organisations find that Word and Excel files are on their sites when they are expressly forbidden. Or Flash is present when it's policy not to use Flash.

The top left hand box covers the data types found (e.g. HTML, CSS, JavaScript, .gif files etc) and gives you a count, an average size and a maximum size. You can click on the type and get a detailed list which gives you the location so you can easily track down problems.

Most organisations have a policy on the size of images. However with more and more people having the ability to add content things can sometimes slip through. We had one instance where someone had added three pictures onto a page straight from their digital camera. Three 2Meg pictures on a page meant that it was a little slow in loading!

We tell you from where your content is served and the type and version of Webserver software that's serving up the content.

Opposite the list of Data Types is a list of the technologies employed. Java, Cookies, Flash

Below this is information on email links and links to external pages. Selecting either of these will take you to more detail along with the ability to drill down on any errors on either of these types of link.

If you'd like to discuss this in more detail please feel free to contact us.

Code quality checking, while important, is only half the story. Seeing exactly what your user's see Sitemorse is able to test performance, monitor for problems and call upon a vast array of tests to ensure you meet all the accessibility guidelines, eGMS requirements and validate all aspects of your content, including PDF files. Why not try a free test now and see if our results match your CMS?

These are two different technologies:

Java

An object-oriented programming language developed initially by James Gosling and colleagues at Sun Microsystems.

The language, initially called Oak (named after the oak trees outside Gosling's office), was intended to replace C++, although the feature set better resembles that of Objective C. Sun Microsystems currently maintains and updates Java regularly.

JavaScript

A script language - a system of programming codes, created by Netscape, that can be embedded into the HTML of a web page to add functionality. In general, script languages such as JavaScript are easier and faster to code than more structured languages such as Java and C++.

Sitemorse offer their clients a web publishing wizard that provides a fast, non technical and efficient way of externally publishing monitoring statistics.

We provide a choice of formats, for Local Authorities this includes meeting the needs of Priority Outcome R25.

On the Monitor URL page click "Configure publicly-available statistics"

Set the start month and select which data you would like to be made available. The URL provided is unique to your account and all you need to link to the public stats.

If you copy and paste a URL from a Sitemorse report into either the "Request new immediate test" or "Add new site" page a warning may be displayed in some browsers.

Sitemorse uses the hidden character '­' to inform the browser where the text should be wrapped. URLs on dynamic web sites are often long, and in order to prevent the URL appearing as one continuous line we insert '­' characters indicating where to wrap the URL if necessary.

When copying the URL from Sitemorse some browsers include these characters, even though they are invisible.

The easiest way around this problem is usually to choose some text that links to the page in question (for example in the report title), click the right-hand mouse button to bring up the menu, and choose 'Copy shortcut' or 'Copy Link Location'.

Instead of 'deleting' old files, consider creating an area (perhaps as even a sub site / sub-domain etc) to house the 'old' PDF's that can no longer be changed. Make it clear that this area contains 'archived' documents that may offer limited capability.

It's a matter of fact that over time the master document used to create a PDF is lost or inaccessible. Thus your ability to carry out corrective action on that document (which may contain valuable content) is at best limited, at worse impossible.

Sitemorse, shouldn't been seen as penalising you for keeping as much information as possible online, but offering you support and the exact detail about matters that are negatively impacting user experience.

Our recent blog article Broken links in old PDF files goes into further detail, including a mechanism to "export" a PDF file to an editor for updating, whilst retaining previous formatting.