From: Tim Stowell <tstowell(a)chattanooga.net>
Subject: [STATE-COORD-L] Nifty Links checker
Connie,
Please pass along my thanks and graditude to Gary Martens for the following.
This was previously posted on the Tombstone list.
I used this to check the Georgia site and after it had checked 5962 links
I stopped it. For what it does that's really neat is it not only checked
the Georgia site but all sub-sites - ie all the county sites and some not
even ours for broken URLs. And...it was fast.
It reports items:
Broken links, ordered by link
Broken links, ordered by page
List of redirected URLs
List of ftp and gopher URLs
List of valid URLs you can submit to a search engine
Site Map of HTML pages with a Title
Extremely good for a freebie!
I highly recommend this for state/county and/or personal sites.
Tim
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For those of you that were going to check web pages for broken
links, here's a program that will do it about 10,000 times faster than
the normal method of clicking on links to see if they are there.
The program is free from:
http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html#Download
It comes in a Zipped file, which includes 3 files. But you must
manually install it into a directory and create your own Icon, or you
can execute it using Windows Explorer. So if your one that
downloads files but has no earthly idea where they go, this
probably isn't for you.
It completely checked my Lincoln County site, which has several
hundred links, in about a minute, and gave me a report on all
URL's, and whether they were accessible or broken links.
Gary Martens
NEGenWeb County Coordinator for Lincoln, Seward and Polk Counties
AHSGR Village Coordinator for Schilling, Neu-Schilling & Konstantinovka