Link Check Summary Report

The Link Check Summary Report page provides details of the links reported by a particular instance of the Link Check Monitor. By default, only links that are broken are displayed in the report table.

The following is an example of a Link Check Summary Report table for a Link Check Monitor set to monitor part of a Web site. A summary of the results returned by the monitor appears in parentheses under the page title. This summary lists the total number of links followed, the total number of links that are broken, when the monitor was last run, and the current display state of the report table. Clicking on the link "show all links" will refresh the report table to show all of the links that were checked by the monitor.

SiteScope Link Check Sumamry Report

This example shows that a total of 292 links were followed and the target referenced by one link was not found. In this case the link was to a URL at a different Web site which was either moved or deleted.

The report table contains the following information. The underlined links in the report table in SiteScope provide sorting functions or links to the referenced URL's.

Status

This is the status returned by the monitor for the referenced links found in the chain of URL's being checked. This includes:

unknown host name
unable to reach server
unable to connect to server
timed out reading
not found

Size (K bytes)

This is size of the response given by the server to the Monitor's request for the referenced URL.

Time (secs)

This is the time it took to retrieve the referenced URL or the error message from the applicable server.

Est. 28.8 time (secs)

This is an estimated retrieval time for a connection through a 28.8 kps modem.

Type

This represents the MIME type of the response from the server.

URL

This is the complete URL that the monitor attempted to retrieve. Clicking on this link will display the content of the URL or the applicable response from the server.

Source Page

This is the complete URL of the page which contains the link listed in the URL column. Clicking on this link will display the content of the URL.

External

This column indicates whether the link in the URL column of the row is a URL found on a different server than the server where the Source Page is found.

Count

This column indicates how many times the link to the target listed in the URL column appears within the scope of the currently defined link check.

The links in the header row of the table allow you to sort the data in the table according to the criteria shown above. Selecting a sort criteria will refresh the table and display the links that are in error in the sort order that was selected (for example, sorted by count or by links that are external).