[users@httpd] HTTP Analyzer?

[Mike Muratet <mu...@eng.uah.edu>]

Greetings

This is not strictly a httpd post, so skip on if you wish.

I am about to do some maintenance on a web site I did not write that
appears to be hundreds of files of entirely static html. One of the things
I would like to do is parse the index.html file and follow all the links
to find all the broken links, all the unused files, and get a graph of the
site structure. Somebody must have already written such a thing. Does
anybody know where to get it?

I've seen (and used) a variety of analyzers you can find on the web, but
I'm not so much interested in how fast things load or how the site gets
browsed on average. I am interested in a browser compatibility assessment.

Anybody have any suggestions?

Thanks

Mike 


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Re: [users@httpd] HTTP Analyzer?

[Mike Muratet <mu...@eng.uah.edu>]

On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Jean-Christophe Montigny wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> perhaps you will want to kill me for saying this, but dreamweaver is 
> made for that kind of purposes. You have tools in it that tell you when 
> links aren't used and I believe it does check for unused files, and it 
> gives you the site structure (perhaps not a picture, though)

Thanks. I do have a Windows box, although most of what I do is on Linux.

I'll give it a try.

I got checkbot and found some broken links.

Mike

> 
> Try downloading its evaluation version
> 
> Mike Muratet wrote:
> > Greetings
> > 
> > This is not strictly a httpd post, so skip on if you wish.
> > 
> > I am about to do some maintenance on a web site I did not write that
> > appears to be hundreds of files of entirely static html. One of the things
> > I would like to do is parse the index.html file and follow all the links
> > to find all the broken links, all the unused files, and get a graph of the
> > site structure. Somebody must have already written such a thing. Does
> > anybody know where to get it?
> > 
> > I've seen (and used) a variety of analyzers you can find on the web, but
> > I'm not so much interested in how fast things load or how the site gets
> > browsed on average. I am interested in a browser compatibility assessment.
> > 
> > Anybody have any suggestions?
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > Mike 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Jean-Christophe Montigny
> Responsable Commission Web, Association Plan�tes
> Responsable serveurs assoces.com, Association Plan�tes
> Etudiant de deuxi�me ann�e � Grenoble Ecole de Management
> 


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Re: [users@httpd] HTTP Analyzer?

[Jean-Christophe Montigny <jc...@assoces.com>]

Hello,

perhaps you will want to kill me for saying this, but dreamweaver is 
made for that kind of purposes. You have tools in it that tell you when 
links aren't used and I believe it does check for unused files, and it 
gives you the site structure (perhaps not a picture, though)

Try downloading its evaluation version

Mike Muratet wrote:
> Greetings
> 
> This is not strictly a httpd post, so skip on if you wish.
> 
> I am about to do some maintenance on a web site I did not write that
> appears to be hundreds of files of entirely static html. One of the things
> I would like to do is parse the index.html file and follow all the links
> to find all the broken links, all the unused files, and get a graph of the
> site structure. Somebody must have already written such a thing. Does
> anybody know where to get it?
> 
> I've seen (and used) a variety of analyzers you can find on the web, but
> I'm not so much interested in how fast things load or how the site gets
> browsed on average. I am interested in a browser compatibility assessment.
> 
> Anybody have any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Mike 


-- 
Jean-Christophe Montigny
Responsable Commission Web, Association Planètes
Responsable serveurs assoces.com, Association Planètes
Etudiant de deuxième année à Grenoble Ecole de Management

Re: [users@httpd] HTTP Analyzer?

[Phil Endecott <sp...@chezphil.org>]

> I am about to do some maintenance on a web site I did not write that
> appears to be hundreds of files of entirely static html. One of the things
> I would like to do is parse the index.html file and follow all the links
> to find all the broken links

I use checkbot to do this; I run it as a weekly cron job so I know when 
sites that I link to go bad.  There are other similar programs. 
freshmeat.net might be a good place to start looking, depending on your 
platform preferences.

> , all the unused files, and get a graph of the
> site structure.

Not sure about those things.  (I wrote a perl script years ago to 
generate a site map by following links; you can see the result at 
http://chezphil.org/map/.  This isn't what you want though as it relies 
on annotating the source to hint at the structure.)

 > I am interested in a browser compatibility assessment.

Not sure about that either, but it's an interesting question as to 
whether you can automate browser compatibility testing to any 
significant extent.

--Phil.


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