Web Watch: WebWatching eLib Project Web Sites
Brian Kelly is WebWatching the eLib Project Sites.
This issue of Ariadne has the theme of eLib Projects. It is therefore timely for the regular WebWatch column to survey eLib project Web sites.
The aim of the survey is to use a number of Web-based tools to provide information on the entry points for eLib project Web sites and the Web sites themselves. The findings may be of interest to the eLib projects themselves and users of eLib projects. Perhaps more importantly, the findings may be of interest to new JISC-funded programmes.
The Survey
On 1st November 2000 a number of Web-based tools were used to survey the Web sites provided by eLib projects. The following tools were used:
- Analysis of eLib project server software and operating system using Netcraft
- The Netcraft service [1] was used to record the type of Web server software and the platform used to host the Web service.
- Analysis of eLib project home page using Netmechanic
- The Netmechanic service [2] was used to analyse link, HTML and browser compatibility errors on eLib project home pages.
- Analysis of popularity of eLib project Web sites using LinkPopularity
- The LinkPopularity service [3] was used to measure the numbers of links to eLib project Web sites as recorded by the AltaVista, Infoseek and HotBot search engines.
- Pages Indexed By AltaVista
- AltaVista service [4] was used to report on the the number of pages on eLib project Web sites which are indexed by AltaVista
- Accessibility of eLib project Web sites using Bobby
- The Bobby service [5] was used to report on the accessibility of eLib project Web home pages.
- Popularity of eLib project Web sites using Netscape
- Netscape's What's Related service [6] was used to report on the popularity of eLib project Web sites.
Survey
The survey took place between 2nd and 5th November 2000 using the list of eLib project Web sites [7].
Information on the popularity of the Web server, the number of pages on the Web sites and the number of links to the Web site were recorded. Links to the What's Related service for each institution are provided in the survey data, allowing the current information to be obtained.
Findings
The findings of the survey are available in Appendix 1. Additional summary information is given below.
Availability of Project Web Sites
Of the 71 project Web sites which were surveyed, 3 Web sites (PPT, ACORN and ERIMS) are no longer available (i.e. the domain no longer exists) and 2 Web entry points (On Demand and TAPIN) are no longer available (i.e. the domain exists but not the project entry point). In addition 4 projects appear never to have had a Web site.
Web Server Software
A summary of the Web server software used on project Web sites is given in the following table.
| Web Server Software | Platform | Number |
| Apache | Unix | 45 |
| Apache | MS platform | 2 |
| IIS | MS platform | 7 |
| Netscape | Unix platform | 2 |
| NetPublisher | MS platform | 1 |
| Lotus Domino | MS platform | 1 |
| CERN | Unknown platform | 1 |
| Stronghold | Unix platform | 1 |
| Zope | Unix platform | 1 |
| WebSTAR | Macintosh platform | 1 |
Discussion of Findings
The Netmechanic analysis recorded the number of broken links from the home page of eLib projects, together with information on the HTML quality. As many of the eLib project Web sites are no longer being maintained broken links from project entry points may not be unexpected. The number of HTML errors and browser compatibility errors may reflect a lack of concern for the importance of HTML standards compliance when project Web sites were set up or may simply be a consequence of use of HTML authoring tools which impose proprietary extensions. On the other hand (although perhaps lass likely) this may be a reflection on the HTML DTD which the Netmechanic validates to.
As alternative devices for accessing Web pages grow in popularity, compliance with HTML and XHTML standards is likely to grow in importance, since automated tools for processing files for use on other devices are likely to require compliant resource in order for format conversion to work properly.
Recommendation: Entry points for project Web sites should compliant with appropriate HTML standards.
The LinkPopularity analysis provides information on the number of links to project Web sites, using the information held on the AltaVista, Infoseek and HotBot search engines.
Links to Web sites is often an indication of the perceived quality of a Web site. It is also a mechanism for driving traffic to a Web site. The importance of this metric can be gauged from its use in search engines which make use of citation analysis, such as Google.
The eLib project Web sites with over 2,000 links to them (according to AltaVista) are SOSIG (7,076), OMNI (5,830), EEVL (3,865), History (2,605), Netskills (2,363) and Ariadne (2,144).
Recommendation: Projects should record the numbers of links to their Web site and monitor trends. The information may be used to assist in dissemination plans.
The analysis of the numbers of resources indexed by AltaVista may simply be a reflection of the size of the Web site being indexed. However if only a small proportion of a project's resources are indexed this may indicate problems with the architecture of the Web site - for example, the Web site may contain frames (which can act as a barrier to indexing robots) or may contain URLs which are not indexable (for example, Web sites containing a ? character).
The Bobby accessibility analysis reports on accessibility problems for project entry points, such as missing ALT attributes for images.
Finally Netscape's What's Related analysis reports on the popularity of the project Web site together with the numbers of pages indexed and the number of links to the Web site.
In order to interpret this information you should read the What's Related FAQ [8]. It should be noted that this information is based on all resources on the Web site, as defined by the domain. If a project Web site is hosted on an organisational Web server the information will be misleading.
Web Tour of eLib Project Web Sites
To accompany the survey of eLib project Web sites a "Web Tour" has been produced [9]. The Web Tour provides a rolling demonstration of the Web sites, with a new project Web site being displayed automatically after a few seconds.
Sitemap of eLib Project Web Sites
A sitemap [10] and list of URLs of eLib project Web sites [11] has also been produced to support this survey.
References
- Netcraft,
http://www.netcraft.com/ - Netmechanic,
http://www.netmechanic.com/ - LinkPopularity,
http://www.linkpopularity.com/ - AltaVista,
http://www.altavista.com/ - Bobby, CAST
http://www.cast.org/bobby/ - About What's Related, Netscape
http://home.netscape.com/escapes/related/ - eLib Projects, UKOLN
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/elib/projects/ - What's Related FAQ, Netscape
http://home.netscape.com/escapes/related/faq.html - Rolling Demonstration of eLib Project Web Sites, UKOLN
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/site-rolling-demos/elib/ - Site Map of eLib Project Web Sites,
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue26/web-watch/elib-sitemap.html - URLs for eLib Project Web Sites,
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue26/web-watch/elib-urls.html
Appendix 1: Survey Results
| Project | Server | Netmechanic Analysis | Link Popularity | Pages Indexed By AltaVista | Accessibility (Using Bobby) | What's Related (Netscape) | |
| Hybrid Libraries | |||||||
| 1 | Agora http://hosted.ukoln.ac.uk/ agora/ | Apache/1.2b8 (Solaris) Check | Link check: 0 bad links Browser compatibility: 0 problems HTML check: 0 errors Load time: 4.01 secs Try it Check up to 20 pages | AltaVista: 47 Infoseek: 30 Hotbot: 53 Try it | 190 Try it | 1 P1 errors 1.96 secs download time Total file size = 7.06 Kb Check | Popularity: In top 197,175 Number of pages on site: 672 Number of links to site on web: 695 Try it |
| 2 | BUILDER http://builder.bham.ac.uk/ | Microsoft-IIS / 4.0 Check | Link check: 0 bad links Browser compatibility: 0 problems HTML check: 0 errors Load time: 8.71 secs Try it Check up to 20 pages | AltaVista: 124 Infoseek: 95 Hotbot: 75 Try it | 1,394 Try it | Not known Check | Popularity: In top 786,043 Number of pages on site: 220 Number of links to site on web: 196 Try it |
| 3 | HEADLINE http://www.headline.ac.uk/ | Apache / 1.3.12 (Linux) Check | Link check: 1 bad links Browser compatibility: 1 problems HTML check: 2 errors Load time: 26.25 secs Try it Check up to 20 pages | AltaVista: 48 Infoseek: 16 Hotbot: 60 Try it | 335 Try it | 1 P1 errors 24.31 secs download time Total file size = 87.50 Kb Check | Popularity: In top 2,782,060 Number of pages on site: 19 Number of links to site on web: 75 Try it |
| 4 | HyLiFe http://hylife.unn.ac.uk/ | Microsoft-IIS / 4.0 Check | Link check: 0 bad links Browser compatibility: 1 problems HTML check: 1 errors Load time: 4.94 secs Try it Check up to 20 pages | AltaVista: 2 Infoseek: 0 Hotbot: 4 Try it | 0 Try it | 1 P1 errors 4.44 secs download time Total file size = 10.59 Kb Check | Popularity: In top 2,108,244 Number of pages on site: 2,228 Number of links to site on web: 1 Try it |
| 5 | Malibu http://www.kcl.ac.uk/ humanities/cch/malibu/ | Apache / 1.3.12 (Solaris) Check | Link check: 0 bad links Browser compatibility: 0 problems HTML check: 4 errors Load time: 16.42 secs Try it Check up to 20 pages | AltaVista: 22 Infoseek: 13 Hotbot: 47 Try it | 68 Try it | 0 P1 errors 7.94 secs download time Total file size = 19.57 Kb Check | Popularity: In top 24,007 Number of pages on site: 7,774 Number of links to site on web: 7,805 Try it |
| Large Scale Resource Discovery (Clumps) projects | |||||||
| 6 | Cairns http://cairns.lib.gla.ac.uk/ | Apache / 1.3.12 (Solaris) Check | Link check: 0 bad links Browser compatibility: 1 problems HTML check: 0 errors Load time: 1.94 secs Try it Check up to 20 pages | AltaVista: 50 Infoseek: 28 Hotbot: 75 Try it | 9 Try it | 0 P1 errors 7.94 secs download time Total file size = 19.57 Kb Check | Popularity: In top 3,081,184 Number of pages on site: 7 Number of links to site on web: 37 Try it |
| 7 | M25 http://www.M25lib.ac.uk/ M25link/ | Apache / 1.3.9 (CompaqTru64) Check | Link check: 0 bad links Browser compatibility: 3 problems HTML check: 16 errors Load time: 5.85 secs Try it Check up to 20 pages | AltaVista: 30 Infoseek: 15 Hotbot: 34 Try it | 0 Try it | 0 P1 errors 19.74 secs download time Total file size = 56.46 Kb Check | Popularity: In top 993,776 Number of pages on site: Not known Number of links to site on web: 800 Try it |
| 8 | Musiconline http://www.musiconline.ac.uk/ | Netscape- Enterprise / 3.6 SP3 (MS platform) Check | Link check: 0 bad links Browser compatibility: 1 problems HTML check: 13 errors Load time: 23.61 secs Try it Check up to 20 pages | AltaVista: 42 Infoseek: 25 Hotbot: 75 Try it | 32 Try it | 0 P1 errors 31.11 secs download time Total file size = 77.79 Kb Check | Popularity: Not available Number of pages on site: Not available Number of links to site on web: Not available Try it |
| 9 | Riding http://www.shef.ac.uk/~riding/ | Apache/1.3.12 (Solaris) Check | Link check: 0 bad links Browser compatibility: 0 problems HTML check: 0 errors Load time: 5.25 secs Try it Check up to 20 pages | AltaVista: 64 Infoseek: 24 Hotbot: 63 Try it | 40 Try it | 0 P1 errors 5.16 secs download time Total file size = 11.36 Kb Check | Popularity: In top 7,238 Number of pages on site: 26,865 Number of links to site on web: 32,723 NOTE: Institutional server Try it |
| Digital Preservation | |||||||
| 10 | CEDARS http://www.leeds.ac.uk/cedars/ | Netscape-Communications / 1.1 (Solaris) Check | Link check: 2 bad links Browser compatibility: 0 problems HTML check: 5 errors Load time: 4.00 secs Try it Check up to 20 pages | AltaVista: 105 Infoseek: 49 Hotbot: 91 Try it | 557 Try it | 1 P1 errors 2.44 secs download time Total file size = 5.19 Kb Check | Popularity: In top 17,160 Number of pages on site: 14,675 Number of links to site on web: 19,920 NOTE: Institutional server Try it |
| Access to Network Resources | |||||||
| 11 | ADAM http://www.adam.ac.uk/ | Apache/1.3.12 (Solaris) Check | Link check: 0 bad links Browser compatibility: 3 problems HTML check: 7 errors Load time: 10.20 secs Try it Check up to 20 pages | AltaVista: 336 Infoseek: 161 Hotbot: >500 Try it | 51 Try it | 1 P1 errors 14.54 secs download time Total file size = 28.93 Kb Check | Popularity: In top 157,069 Number of pages on site: 63 Number of links to site on web: 1,677 Try it |
| 12 | Bized http://www.bized.ac.uk/ | Apache/1.3.12 (Solaris) Check | Link check: 0 bad links Browser compatibility: 0 problems HTML check: 0 errors Load time: 9.34 secs Try it Check up to 20 pages | AltaVista: 1,290 Infoseek: 667 Hotbot: 1,500 Try it | 500 Try it | 0 P1 errors 13.73 secs download time Total file size = 22,43 Kb Check | Popularity: In top 26,060 Number of pages on site: 2,730 Number of links to site on web: 3,300 Try it |
| 13 | CAIN http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/ | Apache/1.3.6 (Solaris) Check | Link check: 0 bad links Browser compatibility: 0 problems HTML check: 19 errors Load time: 13.88 secs Try it Check up to 20 pages | AltaVista: 1,014 Infoseek: 888 Hotbot: 1,400 Try it | 1,828 Try it | 1 P1 errors 19.88 secs download time Total file size = 42.78 Kb Check | Popularity: In top 110,337 Number of pages on site: 651 Number of links to site on web: 1,361 Try it |
| 14 | Catriona http://catriona2.lib.strath.ac.uk/ catriona/ Page redirects to http://wp269.lib.strath.ac.uk:5050/Cat2/ | NetPublisher / 1.10.020 (MS platform) Check | Link check: 0 bad links Browser compatibility: 0 problems HTML check: 0 errors Load time: 2.06 secs Try it Check up to 20 pages | AltaVista: 49 Infoseek: 30 Hotbot: 37 Try it | 0 Try it | 0 P1 errors 0.54 secs download time Total file size = 0.13 Kb Framed site Check | Popularity: In top 113,806 Number of pages on site: 337 Number of links to site on web: 3,811 Try it |
| 15 | EEVL http://www.eevl.ac.uk/ | Apache/1.3.6 (Solaris) Check | Link check: 1 bad links Browser compatibility: 12 problems HTML check: 1 errors Load time: 11.54 secs Try it Check up to 20 pages | AltaVista: 3,865 Infoseek: 1,762 Hotbot: 4,200 Try it | 194 Try it | 2 P1 errors 33.31 secs download time Total file size = 78.50 Kb Check | Popularity: In top 80,366 Number of pages on site: 328 Number of links to site on web: 3,413 Try it |
| 16 | IHR-Info http://ihr.sas.ac.uk/ | CERN/3.0 (Unknown platform) Check | Link check: 0 bad links Browser compatibility: 0 problems HTML check: 134 errors Load time: 10.14 secs Try it Check up to 20 pages | AltaVista: 2,605 Infoseek: 1,308 Hotbot: 1,000 Try it | 1,449 Try it | 1 P1 errors 13.73 secs download time Total file size = 29.64 Kb Check | Popularity: In top 87,355 Number of pages on site: 1,235 Number of links to site on web: 3,796 Try it |
| 17 | OMNI http://omni.ac.uk/ | Apache/1.3.6 (CompaqTru64) Check | Link check: 0 bad links Browser compatibility: 3 problems HTML check: 6 errors Load time: 21.02 secs Try it Check up to 20 pages | AltaVista: 5,830 Infoseek: 1,312 Hotbot: 4,800 Try it | 1,226 Try it | 1 P1 errors 32.25 secs download time Total file size = 67.52 Kb Check | Popularity: In top 53,476 Number of pages on site: 1,291 Number of links to site on web: 11,222 Try it |
| 18 | ROADS http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ roads/ | Zope (Solaris) Check | Link check: 0 bad links Browser compatibility: 0 problems HTML check: 0 errors Load time: 17.39 secs Try it Check up to 20 pages | AltaVista: 299 Infoseek: 157 Hotbot: >200 Try it | 197 Try it | 0 P1 errors 30.11 secs download time Total file size = 54.41 Kb Check | Popularity: In top 197,682 Number of pages on site: 758 Number of links to site on web: 2,535 Try it |
| 19 | RUDI http://www.rudi.net/ | Apache/1.3.6 (Linux) Check | Link check: 0 bad links Browser compatibility: 0 problems HTML check: 0 errors Load time: 8.56 secs Try it Check up to 20 pages | AltaVista: 0 Infoseek: 0 Hotbot: 47 Try it | 0 Try it | 0 P1 errors 7.51 secs download time Total file size = 23.44 Kb Check | Popularity: None available Number of pages on site: None available Number of links to site on web: None available Try it |
| 20 | SOSIG http://sosig.ac.uk/ | Apache/1.3.12 (Solaris) Check | Link check: 0 bad links Browser compatibility: 2 problems HTML check: 2 errors Load time: 9.04 secs Try it Check up to 20 pages | AltaVista: 7,076 Infoseek: 2,482 Hotbot: 2,700 Try it | 583 Try it | 0 P1 errors 13.12 secs download time Total file size = 23.85 Kb Check | Popularity: In top 34,831 Number of pages on site: 6,362 Number of links to site on web: 10,460 Try it |
| Digitisation | |||||||
| 21 | Internet Library of Early Journals http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ilej/ | Apache/1.3.6 (Apache) Check | Link check: 1 bad links Browser compatibility: 0 problems HTML check: 0 errors Load time: 37.85 secs Try it Check up to 20 pages | AltaVista: 676 Infoseek: 196 Hotbot: 1,200 Try it | 25 Try it | 2 P1 errors 39.66 secs download time Total file size = 119.39 Kb Check | Popularity: In top 67,209 Number of pages on site: 443 Number of links to site on web: 5,684 Try it |
| 22 | DIAD http://tdg.linst.ac.uk/tdg/ research/diad/ | Apache/1.3.2 (IRIX) Check | Link check: 0 bad links Browser compatibility: 9 problems HTML check: 3 errors Load time: 27.14 secs Try it Check up to 20 pages | AltaVista: 14 Infoseek: 8 Hotbot: 9 Try it | 3 Try it | 1 P1 errors 0.57 secs download time Total file size = 0.25 Kb (Framed site) Check | Popularity: In top 299,195 Number of pages on site: 1 Number of links to site on web: 254 Try it |
| Electronic Document Delivery | |||||||
| 23 | EDDIS No project Web site | ||||||
| 24 | SEREN http://seren.newi.ac.uk/ user/seren/ | Apache/1.2.4 (Linux) Check | Robots barred fom Web site Try it Check up to 20 pages | AltaVista: 19 Infoseek: 5 Hotbot: 11 Try it | 1 Try it | 1 P1 errors 6.13 secs download time Total file size = 14.87 Kb Check | Popularity: In top 3,427,676 Number of pages on site: 1,606 Number of links to site on web: 12 Try it |
| 25 | JEDDS http://jedds.mcc.ac.uk/website/ | Apache/1.3.4 (Solaris) Check | Link check: 2 bad links Browser compatibility: 7 problems HTML check: 57 errors Load time: 29.16 secs Try it Check up to 20 pages | AltaVista: 7 Infoseek: 9 Hotbot: 5 Try it | 8 Try it | 1 P1 errors 34.66 secs download time Total file size = 90.58 Kb Check | Popularity: In top 7,057,740 Number of pages on site: 594 Number of links to site on web: 7 Try it |
| 26 | LAMDA http://lamdaweb.mcc.ac.uk/ | Apache/1.3.4 (Solaris) Check | Link check: 0 bad links Browser compatibility: 7 problems HTML check: 7 errors Load time: 6.50 secs Try it Check up to 20 pages | AltaVista: 29 Infoseek: 8 Hotbot: 11 Try it | 190 Try it | 0 P1 errors 0.84 secs download time Total file size = 1.24 Kb NOTE: Flash interface Check | Popularity: In top 2,518,481 Number of pages on site: 1 Number of links to site on web: 75 Try it |
| 27 | Infobike http://www.bids.ac.uk/elib/ infobike/homepage.html | Apache/1.3.9 (Solaris) Check | Link check: 2 bad links Browser compatibility: 0 problems HTML check: 0 errors Load time: 5.18 secs Try it Check up to 20 pages | AltaVista: 22 Infoseek: 10 Hotbot: 44 Try it | 1 Try it | 0 P1 errors 5.18 secs download time Total file size = 11.44 Kb Check | Popularity: In top 17,181 Number of pages on site: 986 Number of links to site on web: 6,866 Organisational Web site Try it |
| Electronic Journals | |||||||
| 28 | CLIC http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/clic/ | Apache/1.3.6 (Irix) Check | Link check: 9 bad links Browser compatibility: 1 problems HTML check: 44 errors Load time: 9.45 secs Try it Check up to 20 pages | AltaVista: 153 Infoseek: 71 Hotbot: < 200 Try it | 190 Try it | 1 P1 errors 10.32 secs download time Total file size = 22.74 Kb Check | Popularity: In top 110,190 Number of pages on site: 5,985 Number of links to site on web: 7,873 Try it |
| 29 | Internet Archaeology http://intarch.ac.uk/ | Not known Check | Link check: 0 bad links Browser compatibility: 3 problems HTML check: 10 errors Load time: 12.21 secs Try it Check up to 20 pages | AltaVista: 1,241 Infoseek: 324 Hotbot: 1,600 Try it | 427 Try it | 0 P1 errors 14.34 secs download time Total file size = 28.21 Kb Check | Popularity: In top 108,715 Number of pages on site: 302 Number of links to site on web: 2,060 Try it |
| 30 | PPT http://ppt.geog.qmw.ac.uk/ tibg/ppt_hom.html Web site not available | AltaVista: 9 Infoseek: 7 Hotbot: 8 Try it | |||||
| 31 | Superjournal http://www.superjournal.ac.uk/ sj/ | Apache/1.3.4 (Solaris) Check | Link check: 1 bad links Browser compatibility: 0 problems HTML check: 0 errors Load time: 4.39 secs Try it Check up to 20 pages | AltaVista: 187 Infoseek: 57 Hotbot: > 200 Try it | 120 Try it | 1 P1 errors 3.54 secs download time Total file size = 7.36 Kb Check | Popularity: In top 104,218 Number of pages on site: 625 Number of links to site on web: 2,078 Try it |
| 32 | Electronic Stacks http://www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/ journals/stacks/ | Apache/1.3.12 (Solaris) Check | Link check: 3 bad links Browser compatibility: 1 problems HTML check: 0 errors Load time: 5.57 secs Try it Check up to 20 pages | AltaVista: 7 Infoseek: 10 Hotbot: 9 Try it | 0 Try it | 0 P1 errors 4.53 secs download time Total file size = 12.72 Kb Check | Popularity: In top 625,360 Number of pages on site: 550 Number of links to site on web: 631 Try it |
| 33 | Electronic Seminars in History No project Web site | ||||||
| 34 | Electronic Reviews in History No project Web site | ||||||
| 35 | Epress http://www.epress.ac.uk/ | Apache/1.3.12 (Solaris) Check | Link check: 0 bad links Browser compatibility: 0 problems HTML check: 10 errors Load time: 6.64 secs Try it Check up to 20 pages | AltaVista: 30 Infoseek: 13 Hotbot: 41 Try it | 21 Try it | 2 P1 errors 7.14 secs download time Total file size = 16.70 Kb Check | Popularity: In top 6,225,035 Number of pages on site: 1 Number of links to site on web: 36 Try it |
| 36 | Deliberations http://www.lgu.ac.uk/ deliberations/ | Apache/1.3.12 (Solaris) Check | Link check: 0 bad links Browser compatibility: 2 problems HTML check: 14 errors Load time: 7.77 secs Try it Check up to 20 pages | AltaVista: 1,267 Infoseek: 273 Hotbot: 1,300 Try it | 443 Try it | 0 P1 errors 11.41 secs download time Total file size = 19.49 Kb Check | Popularity: In top 65,144 Number of pages on site: 2,056 Number of links to site on web: 3,824 Try it |
| 37 | Newsagent http://www.sbu.ac.uk/ ~litc/newsagent/ | Apache/1.3.12 (Compaq Tru64) Check | Link check: 0 bad links Browser compatibility: 2 problems HTML check: 2 errors Load time: 13.98 secs Try it Check up to 20 pages | AltaVista: 90 Infoseek: 44 Hotbot: 37 Try it | 7 Try it | 1 P1 errors 6.73 secs download time Total file size = 18.83 Kb Check | Popularity: In top 34,391 Number of pages on site: 3,196 Number of links to site on web: 4,942 Try it |
| 38 | JILT http://elj.warwick.ac.uk/ | Microsoft-IIS/5.0 (MS Windows 2000) Check | Link check: 0 bad links Browser compatibility: 0 problems HTML check: 0 errors Load time: 3.75 secs Try it Check up to 20 pages | AltaVista: 1,424 Infoseek: 458 Hotbot: 69 Try it | 2,337 Try it | 1 P1 errors 23.11 secs download time Total file size = 65.18 Kb Check | Popularity: In top 177,722 Number of pages on site: 418 Number of links to site on web: 2,345 Try it |
| 39 | Open Journal http://journals.ecs.soton.ac.uk/ | Apache/1.2b7 (Solaris) Check | Link check: 0 bad links Browser compatibility: 0 problems HTML check: 2 errors Load time: 5.00 secs Try it Check up to 20 pages | AltaVista: 897 Infoseek: 324 Hotbot: > 300 Try it | 714 Try it | 0 P1 errors 4.43 secs download time Total file size = 10.56 Kb Check | Popularity: In top 531,512 Number of pages on site: 679 Number of links to site on web: 714 Try it |
| 40 | Sociological Research Online http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/ socresonline/ | Apache/1.3.12 (Solaris) Check | Link check: 2 bad links Browser compatibility: 0 problems HTML check: 5 errors Load time: 17.81 secs Try it Check up to 20 pages | AltaVista: 408 Infoseek: 174 Hotbot: > 400 Try it | 0 Try it | 1 P1 errors 25.31 secs download time Total file size = 56.92 Kb Check | Popularity: In top 190,222 Number of pages on site: 19 Number of links to site on web: 3,280 Try it |
| 41 | Learned Societies Support Service http://journals.eecs.qub.ac.uk/ | WebSTAR/1.2.4 ID/12958 (MacOS) Check | Link check: 0 bad links Browser compatibility: 0 problems HTML check: 0 errors Load time: 4.37 secs Try it Check up to 20 pages | AltaVista: 464 Infoseek: 108 Hotbot: 0 Try it | 204 Try it | 0 P1 errors 4.37 secs download time Total file size = 8.54 Kb Check | Popularity: In top 503,812 Number of pages on site: 112 Number of links to site on web: 503 Try it |
| Electronic Short Loan Projects | |||||||
| 42 | ACORN http://acorn.lboro.ac.uk/ Web site not available | AltaVista: 98 Infoseek: 45 Hotbot: < 100 Try it | |||||
| 43 | ERCOMS http://www.iielr.dmu.ac.uk/ Projects/ERCOMS/ | Apache/1.3.9 (AIX) Check | Link check: 0 bad links Browser compatibility: 0 problems HTML check: 2 errors Load time: 5.57 secs Try it Check up to 20 pages | AltaVista: 26 Infoseek: 18 Hotbot: 11 Try it | 10 Try it | 1 P1 errors 5.57 secs download time Total file size = 12.87 Kb Check | Popularity: In top 1,120,964 Number of pages on site: 46 Number of links to site on web: 82 Try it |
| 44 | PATRON http://www.lib.surrey.ac.uk/ Patron/Patron.htm | Microsoft-IIS / 4.0 (MS Windows) Check | Link check: 0 bad links Browser compatibility: 6 problems HTML check: 3 errors Load time: 16.13 secs Try it Check up to 20 pages | AltaVista: 7 Infoseek: 4 Hotbot: 6 Try it | 0 Try it | 2 P1 errors 11.50 secs download time Total file size = 19.82 Kb Check | Popularity: Not available Number of pages on site: Not available Number of links to site on web: Not available Try it |
| 45 | ResIDe http://www.uwe.ac.uk/library/ itdev/reside/ | Apache/1.2.0 (Solaris) Check | Link check: 1 bad links Browser compatibility: 0 problems HTML check: 0 errors Load time: 7.37 secs Try it Check up to 20 pages | AltaVista: 31 Infoseek: 27 Hotbot: 50 Try it | 27 Try it | 1 P1 errors 14.01 secs download time Total file size = 18.05 Kb Check | Popularity: In top 81,456 Number of pages on site: 1,637 Number of links to site on web: 1,657 Try it |
| Images | |||||||
| 46 | DIGIMAP http://digimap.ed.ac.uk:8081/ | Apache/1.3.14 (Solaris) Check | Robots banned Try it Check up to 20 pages | AltaVista: 44 Infoseek: 15 Hotbot: 56 Try it | 1 Try it | 1 P1 errors 0.58 secs download time Total file size = 0.28 Kb (Framed site) Check | Popularity: No information available Number of pages on site: No information available Number of links to site on web: No information available Try it |
| 47 | HELIX http://www.helix.dmu.ac.uk/ | Apache/1.3.9 (Solaris) Check | Link check: 0 bad links Browser compatibility: 4 problems HTML check: 32 errors Load time: 15.83 secs Try it Check up to 20 pages | AltaVista: 213 Infoseek: 84 Hotbot: < 200 Try it | 6 Try it | 1 P1 errors 0.71 secs download time Total file size = 0.76 Kb (Framed site) Check | Popularity: In top 948,201 Number of pages on site: 10 Number of links to site on web: 187 Try it |
| 48 | MIDRIB http://www.midrib.ac.uk/ | Apache/1.3.9 (Solaris) Check | Link check: 0 bad links Browser compatibility: 0 problems HTML check: 0 errors Load time: 5.13 secs Try it Check up to 20 pages | AltaVista: 52 Infoseek: 50 Hotbot: 60 Try it | 30 Try it | 1 P1 errors 4.13 secs download time Total file size = 11.28 Kb Check | Popularity: In top 2,843,108 Number of pages on site: 9 Number of links to site on web: 22 Try it |
| On Demand Publishing | |||||||
| 49 | eON http://eon.unn.ac.uk/ | Apache/1.3.3 (Compaq Tru64) Check | Link check: 1 bad links Browser compatibility: 1 problems HTML check: 2 errors Load time: 5.39 secs Try it Check up to 20 pages | AltaVista: 34 Infoseek: 40 Hotbot: 7 Try it | 28 Try it | Information not available Check | Popularity: In top 384,787 Number of pages on site: 44 Number of links to site on web: 18 Try it |
| 50 | Phoenix http://www.hud.ac.uk/schools/ phoenix/pages/homepage.htm | Apache/1.3.12 (Solaris) Check | Link check: 0 bad links Browser compatibility: 1 problems HTML check: 14 errors Load time: 23.00 secs Try it Check up to 20 pages | AltaVista: 11 Infoseek: 6 Hotbot: 7 Try it | 1 Try it | 1 P1 errors 26.00 secs download time Total file size = 75.60 Kb Check | Popularity: In top 71,840 Number of pages on site: 2,360 Number of links to site on web: 3,105 Try it |
| 51 | Edbank http://www-edbank.open.ac.uk/ edbank/ | Apache/1.3.6 (Solaris) Check | Link check: 1 bad links Browser compatibility: 0 problems HTML check: 2 errors Load time: 9.87 secs Try it Check up to 20 pages | AltaVista: 8 Infoseek: 18 Hotbot: 4 Try it | 0 Try it | 1 P1 errors 10.87 secs download time Total file size = 28.33 Kb Check | Popularity: In top 7,221 Number of pages on site: 6 Number of links to site on web: 6 Try it |
| 52 | HERON http://www.stir.ac.uk/ infoserv/heron/ | Apache/1.3.14 (MS platform) Check | Link check: 0 bad links Browser compatibility: 0 problems HTML check: 1 errors Load time: 2.49 secs Not checked fully Try it Check up to 20 pages | AltaVista: 53 Infoseek: 20 Hotbot: 44 Try it | 28 Try it | 1 P1 errors 0.95 secs download time Total file size = 1.61 Kb Check | Popularity: In top 41,227 Number of pages on site: 1,840 Number of links to site on web: 7,296 Try it |
| 53 | On Demand http://www.livjm.ac.uk/ on_demand/ Web page not found | AltaVista: 31 Infoseek: 12 Hotbot: 37 Try it | |||||
| 53 | SCOPE http://www.stir.ac.uk/ infoserv/scope/ | Apache/1.3.14 (MS platform) Check | Link check: 0 bad links Browser compatibility: 0 problems HTML check: 5 errors Load time: 8.33 secs Try it Check up to 20 pages | AltaVista: 68 Infoseek: 32 Hotbot: > 100 Try it | 101 Try it | 1 P1 errors 9.83 secs download time Total file size = 22.80 Kb Check | Popularity: In top 41,227 Number of pages on site: 1,840 Number of links to site on web: 7,296 Try it |
| 55 | ERIMS http://erims.temp.ox.ac.uk/ erimsproj/ Web site not available | AltaVista: 2 Infoseek: 1 Hotbot: 2 Try it | |||||
| 56 | Eurotext http://eurotext.ulst.ac.uk/ | Apache/1.3.3 (Solaris) Check | Link check: 0 bad links Browser compatibility: 4 problems HTML check: 30 errors Load time: 38.40 secs Try it Check up to 20 pages | AltaVista: 304 Infoseek: 82 Hotbot: > 200 Try it | 146 Try it | 1 P1 errors 13.73 secs download time Total file size = 27.84 Kb Check | Popularity: In top 2,089,799 Number of pages on site: 5,051 Number of links to site on web: 198 Try it |
| Pre-prints | |||||||
| 57 | CogPrints http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/ | Apache/1.3.12 (Linux) Check | Link check: 2 bad links Browser compatibility: 1 problems HTML check: 0 errors Load time: 10.36 secs Try it Check up to 20 pages | AltaVista: 898 Infoseek: 422 Hotbot: 2,000 Try it | 811 Try it | 1 P1 errors 10.86 secs download time Total file size = 30.08 Kb Check | Popularity: In top 234,162 Number of pages on site: 316 Number of links to site on web: 1,257 Try it |
| 58 | Education-line http://www.leeds.ac.uk/educol/ | Netscape-Communications / 1.1 (Solaris) Check | Link check: 0 bad links Browser compatibility: 0 problems HTML check: 0 errors Load time: 3.39 secs Try it Check up to 20 pages | AltaVista: 1,232 Infoseek: 321 Hotbot: 1,000 Try it | 430 Try it | 1 P1 errors 4.39 secs download time Total file size = 4.99 Kb Check | Popularity: In top 17,160 Number of pages on site: 14,675 Number of links to site on web: 19,920 Try it |
| 59 | Formations http://formations.ulst.ac.uk/ | Lotus-Domino (MS platform) Check | Link check: 0 bad links Browser compatibility: 6 problems HTML check: 8 errors Load time: 5.72 secs Try it Check up to 20 pages | AltaVista: 25 Infoseek: 8 Hotbot: 12 Try it | 8 Try it | 1 P1 errors 5.22 secs download time Total file size = 13.39 Kb Check | Popularity: In top 828,414 Number of pages on site: 8 Number of links to site on web: 35 Try it |
| 60 | WoPEc http://netec.mcc.ac.uk/ WoPEc.html | Apache/1.3.4 (Solaris) Check | Link check: Information not available Browser compatibility: Information not availables HTML check: Information not available Load time: Information not available Try it Check up to 20 pages | AltaVista: 349 Infoseek: 126 Hotbot: 1,500 Try it | 1 Try it | 2 P1 errors 10.66 secs download time Total file size = 22.16 Kb Check | Popularity: In top 49,277 Number of pages on site: 25,916 Number of links to site on web: 117,309 Try it |
| Quality Assurance | |||||||
| 61 | ESPERE http://www.espere.org/ | Microsoft-IIS / 4.0 (MS platform) Check | Link check: 1 bad links Browser compatibility: 4 problems HTML check: 5 errors Load time: 13.04 secs Try it Check up to 20 pages | AltaVista: 15 Infoseek: 13 Hotbot: 41 Try it | 17 Try it | 2 P1 errors 9.39 secs download time Total file size = 14.01 Kb Check | Popularity: No information available Number of pages on site: No information available Number of links to site on web: No information available Try it |
| Supporting Studies | |||||||
| 62 | MODELS http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ dlis/models/ | Apache/1.2b8 (Solaris) Check | Link check: 0 bad links Browser compatibility: 0 problems HTML check: 0 errors Load time: 3.56 secs Try it Check up to 20 pages | AltaVista: 97 Infoseek: 67 Hotbot: 78 Try it | 327 Try it | 0 P1 errors 3.01 secs download time Total file size = 7.23 Kb Check | Popularity: In top 66,007 Number of pages on site: 4,056 Number of links to site on web: 9,835 Try it |
| 63 | IMPEL2 http://ilm.unn.ac.uk/impel/ | Microsoft-IIS / 4.0 (MS platform) Check | Link check: 0 bad links Browser compatibility: 4 problems HTML check: 8 errors Load time: 40.23 secs Try it Check up to 20 pages | AltaVista: 70 Infoseek: 18 Hotbot: 53 Try it | 22 Try it | 1 P1 errors 15.41 secs download time Total file size = 46.47 Kb Check | Popularity: In top 1,969,595 Number of pages on site: 23 Number of links to site on web: 143 Try it |
| 64 | FIDDO http://www.lboro.ac.uk/ departments/dis/ fiddo/fiddo.html | Apache/1.3.12 (Solaris) Check | Link check: 0 bad links Browser compatibility: 0 problems HTML check: 0 errors Load time: 5.61 secs Try it Check up to 20 pages | AltaVista: 34 Infoseek: 18 Hotbot: 63 Try it | 1 Try it | 1 P1 errors 3.96 secs download time Total file size = 8.87 Kb Check | Popularity: In top 35,073 Number of pages on site: 4,554 Number of links to site on web: 12,331 Try it |
| Training and Awareness | |||||||
| 65 | Ariadne http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/ | Apache/1.2b8 (Solaris) Check | Link check: 0 bad links Browser compatibility: 1 problems HTML check: 1 errors Load time: 6.51 secs Try it Check up to 20 pages | AltaVista: 2,144 Infoseek: 1,010 Hotbot: 2,200 Try it | 934 Try it | 2 P1 errors 10.07 secs download time Total file size = 27.23 Kb Check | Popularity: In top 160,068 Number of pages on site: Not available Number of links to site on web: 1,849 Try it |
| 66 | CINE http://www.kcl.ac.uk/ projects/cine/ | Apache/1.3.12 (Solaris) Check | Link check: 0 bad links Browser compatibility: 0 problems HTML check: 0 errors Load time: 18.02 secs Try it Check up to 20 pages | AltaVista: 33 Infoseek: 12 Hotbot: 34 Try it | 21 Try it | 0 P1 errors 17.48 secs download time Total file size = 57.52 Kb Check | Popularity: In top 40,600 Number of pages on site: 7,774 Number of links to site on web: 7,805 Try it |
| 67 | EDULIB http://www.tay.ac.uk/edulib/ | Microsoft-IIS / 4.0 (MS platform) Check | Link check: 1 bad links Browser compatibility: 4 problems HTML check: 4 errors Load time: 14.70 secs Try it Check up to 20 pages | AltaVista: 11 Infoseek: 2 Hotbot: 12 Try it | 103 Try it | 1 P1 errors 16.97 secs download time Total file size = 34.10 Kb Check | Popularity: In top 509,759 Number of pages on site: 147 Number of links to site on web: 833 Try it |
| 68 | Netways http://netways.shef.ac.uk/ | Stronghold/1.3 (Compaq Tru64) Check | Link check: 1 bad links Browser compatibility: 0 problems HTML check: 14 errors Load time: 11.61 secs Try it Check up to 20 pages | AltaVista: 300 Infoseek: 162 Hotbot: < 200 Try it | 290 Try it | 1 P1 errors 15 secs download time Total file size = 30.62 Kb Check | Popularity: In top 1,069,011 Number of pages on site: 243 Number of links to site on web: 221 Try it |
| 69 | Netskills http://www.netskills.ac.uk/ | Apache/1.3.9 (Solaris) Check | Link check: 0 bad links Browser compatibility: 2 problems HTML check: 1 errors Load time: 8.74 secs Try it Check up to 20 pages | AltaVista: 2,363 Infoseek: 589 Hotbot: 1,800 Try it | 298 Try it | 0 P1 errors 14.69 secs download time Total file size = 24.07 Kb Check | Popularity: In top 144,657 Number of pages on site: 201 Number of links to site on web: 3,104 Try it |
| 70 | SKIP http://www.plym.ac.uk/ faculties/research/skip1.htm | Apache/1.3.3 (Solaris) Check | Link check: 0 bad links Browser compatibility: 0 problems HTML check: 0 errors Load time: 7.12 secs Try it Check up to 20 pages | AltaVista: 6 Infoseek: 4 Hotbot: 7 Try it | 1 Try it | 1 P1 errors 7.32 secs download time Total file size = 19.15 Kb Check | Popularity: In top 187,409 Number of pages on site: 655 Number of links to site on web: 3,374 Try it |
| 71 | TAPIN http://www.uce.ac.uk/tapin/ Web page not available | AltaVista: 70 Infoseek: 19 Hotbot: 34 Try it | |||||
Author Details
Brian Kelly
UK Web Focus
UKOLN
University of Bath
Bath
BA2 7AY
Email: b.kelly@ukoln.ac.uk
Brian Kelly is UK Web Focus. He works for UKOLN, which is based at the University of Bath