Recently we have developed a tool that scans content of web sites and creates a report on some accessibility and SEO related parameters. The application is a PHP script that can be installed in any Apache / MySQL / PHP platform and can be croned (program its activation in certain dates / hours). The information it harvests for every link he finds in the site is:
- Titles
- Encoding
- Language
- Metas
- Type of link: internal link, external link, CSS file, JS script, file, e-mail address
- HTML/XHTML doctype based validation against W3C validator
- File where the link was found (very useful to fix these broken links)
The idea is to publish an Open Source Tool that helps improving the quality of web sites in general, but actually it is nothing but but an internal use alpha version (with a couple of bugs ^^). If you are interested in us developing this tool get in contact with us. If we are encouraged with 10 or 12 suggestions we'll consider it is woth investing time and effort to create a complete and trustable application. Some features we may implement are:
- CSS Validation
- Information about existing images and its titles and alts
- Tree view of the sitemap
- Sitemap.xml generation
- Automatized generation and sending of PDF reports over e-mail to content managers (very useful to keep the site standard compliant and accessible over time)
- Page headers hierarchy (h1-h6)
