HTML Analysis Of Web Sites

A survey of the HTML compliance of home pages of Web sites in the RSC Yorkshire and Humber has been carried out. The survey makes use of the W3C HTML compliance checking tool.

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Findings

Table 1: Findings
  Organisation Compliant? HTML Version Errors Comments Try It
1 Askham Bryan College N HTML 4 34 errors   Check
2 Barnsley College N HTML 4 55 errors   Check
3 Bishop Burton College N Not defined No DOCTYPE   Check
4 Bradford College N Not defined No DOCTYPE   Check
5 Calderdale College N Not defined No DOCTYPE; no character encoding   Check
6 Craven College N HTML 4 8 errors   Check
7 Dearne Valley College N Not defined No DOCTYPE   Check
8 Dewsbury College N HTML 4 7 errors   Check
9 Doncaster College N Not defined No DOCTYPE   Check
10 East Riding College N HTML 4 31 errors   Check
11 Franklin College N HTML 4.01 (Frameset) 4 errors Uses frames Check
12 Greenhead College N Not defined No DOCTYPE   Check
13 Grimsby College N Not defined No DOCTYPE   Check
14 Huddersfield New College N Not defined No DOCTYPE   Check
15 Huddersfield Technical College N HTML 4 22 errors   Check
16 Hull College N Not defined No DOCTYPE   Check
17 John Leggott College N Not defined No DOCTYPE; no character encoding   Check
18 Joseph Priestley College N Not defined No DOCTYPE   Check
19 Keighley College N Not defined No DOCTYPE; no character encoding   Check
20 Leeds College of Art N Not defined No DOCTYPE; no character encoding   Check
21 Leeds College of Building N Not defined No DOCTYPE   Check
22 Leeds College of Music N Not defined No DOCTYPE; no character encoding   Check
23 Leeds College of Technology N Not defined No DOCTYPE; no character encoding   Check
24 New College, Pontefract N Not defined No DOCTYPE   Check
25 North Lindsey College N Not defined No DOCTYPE; no character encoding   Check
26 Northern College N Not defined No DOCTYPE   Check
27 Notre Dame 6th Form College N Not defined No DOCTYPE   Check
28 Park Lane College N Not defined No DOCTYPE   Check
29 Rotherham College of Arts and Technology Y HTML 4     Check
30 Rother Valley College N HTML 4 Strict 67 errors   Check
31 Scarborough 6th Form College N Not defined No DOCTYPE; no character encoding   Check
32 Selby College ? ?   Web server down Check
33 Sheffield College ? ?   Invalid HTTP headers sent Check
34 Shipley College N Not defined No DOCTYPE; no character encoding   Check
35 Thomas Danby College N Not defined No DOCTYPE; no character encoding   Check
36 Thomas Rotherham College N Not defined No DOCTYPE; no character encoding   Check
37 Wakefield College N Not defined No DOCTYPE; no character encoding   Check
38 Wilberforce College N Not defined No DOCTYPE   Check
39 Wyke College N HTML 4.01 Frameset 4 errors Framed page Check
40 York College N Not defined No DOCTYPE   Check
41 Yorkshire Coast College N Not defined No DOCTYPE   Check
42 RSC Yorkshire & Humber N Not defined No DOCTYPE   Check

The information in the table was collected on 9th January 2004.

Notes

Please note the following:

Summary

A summary of the findings is given below.

Table 2: HTML Compliance
Compliant 1 2%
Not Compliant 39 93%
Not known 2 5%

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Last updated on 9-Jan-2004

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