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Tool Tip:
Give Your Site A Free Monthly Tune-up!
by Larisa Thomason,
Senior Web Analyst,
NetMechanic, Inc.
Your Web site is like your car: they both need regular maintenance to achieve maximum performance. Just like parts wear out on a car over time, components of your Web site can break too.
Fix problems on your site before your visitors find them! NetMechanic offers a free monthly service that will automatically test up to 10 pages of your domain for errors and deliver the results to your email box. To sign up for your free monthly Web site check, click here.
Find Broken Links
Results from the 32 million Web pages checked by NetMechanic's HTML Toolbox show that 5% of all links are broken and another 2% are malfunctioning due to server downtime.
Broken internal links occur most often after you move pages or reorganize your directory structure. External links break for many different reasons. The webmaster may have moved the file, deleted it, or taken the whole site down entirely.
Broken links frustrate visitors because they can't access what they assume is useful information. Nevertheless, many webmasters postpone regular link maintenance because it's time-consuming and boring to do it manually. In the free monthly version of HTML Toolbox, we'll check the first 25 links on your page so you can concentrate on updating your site with fresh and interesting content.
Speed Up Slow Pages
Internet users are notoriously impatient. A Zona Research study found that if your site doesn't load in 8 seconds, up to 1/3 of them will leave.
Each time you add an image to your page, download time increases. You may be so busy keeping the site updated that you don't have the time to monitor how the changes affect your page download time.
As part of your monthly tune-up, we'll send you a report that alerts you to slow pages and offers tools to help you speed them up.
Find Site Errors
You may have posted an error-free page originally, but is it still clean?
Each new browser version comes with its own set of quirks and idiosyncrasies that can cause your existing Web page to behave erratically. HTML standards change too. More recent versions support new tags and mark some older tags for eventual deletion (deprecate). Web pages that use deprecated tags may have problems in the future.
We constantly update HTML Toolbox with new browser and HTML tag information so you can identify and fix problems before they drive away visitors.
Need More Help?
The free monthly tune-up will alert you to a number of Web site problems, but if you're running a large or more complex site, it may not be enough.
To check sites larger than ten pages, subscribe to HTML Toolbox for only $60 a year! Paid subscribers receive more benefits, including unlimited link checking and on demand testing (as well as scheduled testing).
They also have access to HTML Repair, which not only finds errors on your page, but corrects them as well.
Remember, the Internet is not static. Web sites change, browser versions get more complex, and new techniques are introduced. Let NetMechanic help you keep your Web site in top condition.
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