Website Maintenance Tools

Web Site Maintenance Tools

Website maintenance tools help to reduce cost, and increase efficiency of your website. These tools are used to check bad links, HTML errors, browser compatibility, load time, spelling errors and size of the images displayed. Using all of these types of tools will assure great response time and the ability to display your website to people that try to access it on PDA's and other hand held devices that are gaining popularity these days.

A Link Check Tool is used by Webmasters to check links for accuracy and availability, and to find broken links. It will test and report the status of each link of your site. You enter the URL of a page, it will get a hold of the page, and compile a report on it. The report of each page will include a summary of all links from the page. It also checks that all the links are dereferenceable. It warns about HTTP redirects, including directory redirects.

HTML check and repair tool is used to find bad tag usage, and html code syntax errors. It provides a diagnostic report. It offers an option of having all detected HTML errors corrected automatically and creates a repaired page. It also compares the appearance of a corrected page with an uncorrected HTML page.

A Browser Compatibility Tool is used to tackle problems arising due to different browsers, different versions or bugs. HTML errors are the primary cause of browser display problems. The browser compatibility tool ensures that your pages are free of HTML errors. You enter the URL of your page, it will search your site and prepare a report on HTML tags and attributes that are not supported by different versions of the major browsers. The test results will also provide instructions to help you correct your browser settings.

A Load Time Check Tool is used to check the download time for your pages. You enter the URL of the page you wish to check, and the tool will download your site and evaluate it for loading time. It reports the size of each object in your pages and also checks HTML problems that can increase the loading time. It would assist in making your web pages load faster.

A Spell Check Tool is used to review the text on your pages for spelling errors. An optional Custom Dictionary can also be chosen to list words you want the spell checker to ignore.

An Image Optimization Tool is used to compresses your GIF, JPEG, and animated GIF images. It reduces file size while maintaining the quality of the image. It lets you compare your original image to the compressed images. The compress of your image file size, make your web site faster, and saves disk space.

Structuring the directories helps in easy maintenance of websites. By unstructured, it is meant that all files (images, html files, external files, and scripts) are placed into the top-level directory. Create a structured directory for the major categories of files in your site. For an advanced directory structure, you may need to add a few more subdirectories or place some subdirectories under existing subdirectories.

Proper and regular use of these website maintenance tools guarantees an increased performance of your site.