Netmechanic Analysis Of Selected Museum Web Sites

A survey of the home pages of selected Museum Web Sites has been carried out. The survey makes use of the Netmechanic.

A summary of the findings is given in the following table.

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Findings

**Table 1: Findings**
	Museum	Broken Links	HTML Errors	Browser Compatibility	Load time	Comments	Try It
1	mda	0	1	1	12		Page Check
2	24hourmuseum	0 (of first 25)	0	0	43.9		Page Check
3	Natural History Museum (NHM)	1 (of first 25)	13	22	22.54		Page Check
4	National Museum of Science and Industry	0	0	0	2.07	Checks Flash detection page and not real page	Page Check
5	Bath Postal Museum	0	24	7	41.18		Page Check
6	American Museum	0 (of first 25)	0	0	15.28		Page Check

The information in the table was collected on 15^th August 2003.

The following table gives details of the Web sites for participants at the workshop.

**Table 2: Findings**
	Museum	Broken Links	HTML Errors	Browser Compatibility	Load time	Comments	Try It
1	Association of Suffolk Museums	1 (of first 25)	17	0	15.46		Page Check
2	ABL	1	3	3	12.71		Page Check
3	BECTa	Not reported	Not reported	Not reported	Not reported	Analysis cancelled after over 2,200 links checked! Evidence of possible problem.	Page Check

The information in the table was collected on 8^th September 2003.

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