Content Analyzer provides Site Summary reports helping you understand the mix of content on a site.
These reports include:

  • Counts and sizes for objects such as pages, images, and applications.
  • Counts of objects and links that are OK missing, or in error.
  • The number of levels in use by the site, where the home page is considered level one.
  • The average number of links per page.

Generating a Site Summary Report

There are three ways to run the Site Summary report:

  1. Select the Generate Site Reports checkbox when creating a new WebMap.
  2. Use the Generate Site Reports toolbar button.
  3. Choose Tools on the strip menu and Generate Site Reports on the pulldown menu.

Using a Site Summary Report

The following list shows the function and purpose of the specific entries in this report, and indicates the types of questions the reports will answer:

Object Statistics—count and size of

  • Pages: Are my pages getting too large to load with minimal hardware and standard browsers?
  • Images: Do I include enough visuals in my site presentation?
  • Gateways: How many links permit browsers to run Common Gateway Interface (CGI) scripts on my server using GET or POST commands?
  • Internet: How many links point to Internet services such as Telnet?
  • A Java: Is the number of links to Java applications appropriate considering the anticipated mix of browsers among the visitors to my site?
  • Applications: What is the capacity planning implications of the number of links to applications?
  • Audio: Is the number of audio links appropriate for the anticipated percentage of audio-enabled hardware among the visitors to my site?
  • Video: Is the number of video links appropriate for the anticipated percentage of video-enabled hardware among the visitors to my site?
  • Text: Is the number of text objects appropriate for the anticipated percentage of visitors who will be using Lynx or other text-only browsers on older hardware?
  • WebMaps: Do I have sufficient WebMap links to assist my users in navigating the site?
  • Other Media: Do I use links to other media?
  • Totals: How complicated is my site? Would it be more effective if I streamlined the contents?

Status Summary— a number of objects and links

Onsite

  • OK: What is the condition of my onsite links? Do I need to allocate more resources to repairing and maintaining them?
  • Not Found (code 404): What is the condition of my onsite links? Do I need to allocate more resources to repairing and maintaining them?
  • Other Errors: What is the condition of my onsite links? Do I need to allocate more resources to repairing and maintaining them?
  • Unverified: What is the condition of my onsite links? Do I need to allocate more resources to repairing and maintaining them?

Offsite

  • OK: What is the condition of my offsite links? Do I need to allocate more resources to repairing and maintaining them?
  • Not Found (code 404): What is the condition of my offsite links? Do I need to allocate more resources to repairing and maintaining them?
  • Other Errors: What is the condition of my offsite links? Do I need to allocate more resources to repairing and maintaining them?
  • Unverified: What is the condition of my offsite links? Do I need to allocate more resources to repairing and maintaining them?

Map Statistics

  • Map Date: Is this report current? Do I need to remap my site at this time?
  • Levels: How much navigating through links is necessary to get from my home page to the “outer edge” of my site?
  • Average Links per Page: Has my site been logically structured? Do I have a confusing mesh of links between everything and everything else? Should I streamline the links so that I can more closely control the ways in which visitors will use the site?