|
|
Posted by Chris Beall on 12/06/05 05:28
Craig Cockburn wrote:
> 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 :-)
>
>
>
Craig,
Seems to work here and the suggestions provided to the user are helpful.
1. Rather than depend on UCSD, I'd suggest you provide your own
explanation of the error, showing only the one appropriate to the
immediate situation.
2. I used Netscape 7.1. When I see a list of links like those in your
example, I tend to keep the page with the list open in one tab, then
right click on each link I'm interested in and select "Open in new tab"
from the resulting popup menu. But something in your code prevents that
option (and several others) from appearing in the popup.
Chris Beall
Navigation:
[Reply to this message]
|