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Posted by Craig Cockburn on 12/06/05 04:20
I have a tool which tells me the number of times that visitors attempt
to access a link from my site to an external site and what the response
code received was. In the event of the remote site returning an error
code, they are not sent to the remote site - why bother, it wouldn't
work!
Since I have over 1000 external links, this allows me to locate the
broken links that people see the most often and fix those first.
Conventional link checkers offer a complimentary service and detect
instances of broken links rather than instances of frequency seen.
The output from the program can generate reports based on time, link
accessed, page on my site where the link occurred and so on.
This means that on my site, I now have much better control over what
happens if the visitor would see a 404 on an external link and I can
offer them more options.
Try it out here
http://www.siliconglen.com/Scotland/2_2.html
Whilst accepting that broken links are a generally bad thing, this tool
at least helps me to manage them more effectively.
comments, feedback welcome. This is an early release so there may be
bugs but I hope not :-)
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Craig Cockburn ("coburn"). http://www.SiliconGlen.com/
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