Link-Checking Analysis Of RSC Web Sites

A survey of the links from the home pages of RSC Web Sites has been carried out. The survey makes use of the W3C link checking tool.

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

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Findings

**Table 1: Findings**
	RSC	Home page	Recursive check	Comments	Try It
1	RSC London	1 broken link and 1 problem	Multiple broken links and other problems found	Checked 150 documents in 1616.0 seconds.	Page Check Bulk Check
2	RSC Eastern	1 (apparent) broken links	Multiple broken links and other problems found	Checked 116 documents in 997.1 seconds.	Page Check Bulk Check
3	RSC South East	1 possible accessibility problem	Multiple broken links and other problems found	Checked 77 documents in 383.8 seconds.	Page Check Bulk Check
4	RSC South West	4 broken links	Multiple broken links and other problems found	Checked 118 documents in 1068.8 seconds.	Page Check Bulk Check
5	RSC East Midlands	1 broken link and 1 problem	Multiple broken links or problems found	Checked 150 documents in 776.7 seconds.	Page Check Bulk Check
6	RSC West Midlands	Several problems	Multiple broken links or problems found		Page Check Bulk Check
7	RSC North West	1 apparent broken link and 1 other problem	Multiple broken links or problems found	Analysis timed out	Page Check Bulk Check
8	RSC Yorkshire and Humber	Several apparent broken links	Multiple broken links or problems found	Checked 62 documents in 709.3 seconds.	Page Check Bulk Check
9	RSC Northern	Several apparent broken links	Multiple broken links or problems found	Checked 43 documents in 507.7 seconds.	Page Check Bulk Check
10	RSC Scotland South & West	2 broken links and several apparent broken links	Multiple broken links or problems found	Checked 90 documents in 721.6 seconds.	Page Check Bulk Check
11	RSC Scotland North & East	0 broken links	Multiple broken links or problems found	Minimal content on home page Checked 150 documents in 771.5 seconds.	Page Check Bulk Check
12	RSC Wales	1 apparent broken links	Multiple broken links or problems found	Checked 74 documents in 413.1 seconds.	Page Check Bulk Check
13	RSC Northern Ireland	0 broken links	No additional pages found	Home page redirect influences findings	Page Check Bulk Check

The information in the table was collected on 11^th August 2003.

Notes

Please note the following:

Only the entry points have been analysed.
Only an automated analysis has been carried out.
The online version of this page allows the latest findings to be obtained.
Link problems may be due to an intermittent networking problem or downtime of the remote site, and not necessarily due to a permanent broken link.

Summary

A summary of the findings is not given due to the skewing of the findings caused by problems with the JISC Web site.