SortSite User Manual
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1. one click site testing SortSite 5 User Manual BOresicve T WSel Wan al sectors isc beer veces eee eteree case ise baveee west gee seek 1 IVV N ostoe eee sa EE de eacecaneuases atenecerecescatandecacceanaeanes as 2 MUCA ORO SOM ICS csteesrecese caste A E ees 2 How SortSite W OPK S sirccensstretecstonsie ane dastecnsenceeserdyetenshanstsenctectsentenseeenec 2 CNG CK PO EA ceaeusaaatansteeneuneaveranie E A E EAT E 3 EPPOI Sacia a AAE 3 SCM p a a E E E A E E soa E E E E E E T 3 ACE SCIE Y sai E AE TEE ee ee 3 Browser COMParlD EY ciserssieiioi e Aei 3 PAVA C PEO ea E E E A E ES 4 Search Optimization PrO icrrrsrererriardicrirr srpna ai 4 Wep Stana eea E EEE 4 SADE PrO sasetocecuaaceaueiacoueieecauncesauiaeeateakeearmaecmadaaeensene semene enacts 4 Scanning Sites Folders ANd PAGES ccccccec cece eeeee seen ee eeeeee eee eeeeaeeeeeeeneaaes 5 S Cal Whi OPON sira aa emeser eres e eteeeee teser cee cose E cate 5 CTO OSI RIO S aaia E E nade EA A E paiwnum ones E EA 5 Sharing Rule SettingS issrsircieiiiincitineieaa i a 6 Mapping Password Protected PageS nssssnnnssenrrnrnnnnrnrnrnenrnnnnrnerenennne 6 USING REDO arerin raa E E 7 Do MNO OA a aa eens es eee eee ee 7 le Map raai A E A E 7 Issues Dy CC Oates eer etre EEEE E ENEE 8 SOUrCE VIEW piirinen drar aE RE T AEA 8 IVO O ea eee eo ce ee ee E 8 ESSUCS DY PaCS gaat tesvesas cance aiaaana dscns siieesesonran EE EAEE 9 Exporting Reports PrO Ikcaisacecacuaeateseresisepuamoesecinnsesea2. Checking lots of links to social book marking sites can result in your book marking account being suspended temporarily Blocks Allows you to prevent pages being visited _ during the scan Benaia cs Ligia actanced Link Blocking Use this avoid scanning certain pages an asterisk works as a wildcard For example Obey Robots txt i a TE When checked the web crawler will obey this Blocked Links protocol Note We strongly recommend you keep this Use this when you want to prevent the application following links generated by scripts in cgi bin cgibin and scripts checke d s Ignore CGI scripts Robot Exdusion Standard Ignore CGI scripts genic meatier ama er i Check to ignore links generated by scripts in os the cgi bin cgibin and scripts directories Blocked Links Allows you to specify URL patterns for pages to block The syntax is the same as used in robots txt Examples Page 10 This document is for informational purposes only PowerMapper Software makes no warranties express or implied in this document Copyright 1996 2015 PowerMapper Software one click site testing http www domain com copyright htm Blocks a single page http www domain com stayout Blocks all pages in the stayout folder https Blocks all HTTPS links doc Blocks links to all pages with a doc extension sprint Iriendliy ntm Blocks links to URLs ending in print_friendly htm raction edit Bl
3. RL parameters to index e Pages with hidden text which can trigger ranking penalties e Presence of specified keywords in critical areas like page titles and headings Web Standards Validate code using the same integrated HTML validation engine as the W3C validation service e HTML XHTML CSS and SVG validation e Find markup deprecated by W3C one click site testing Supported W3C standards include HTML 2 0 HTML 3 2 HTML 4 0 HTML 4 01 HTML 5 0 ISO HTML 15445 2000 MathML 2 0 MathML 3 0 XHTML 1 0 XHTML 1 1 SVG 1 0 SVG 1 1 SVG Basic 1 1 SVG Tiny 1 1 SMIL 1 0 SMIL 2 0 SMIL 2 1 SMIL 3 0 Usability Pro Check against usability standards e Usability gov guidelines e W3C best practices e Readability guidelines Check for over 50 user experience problems including e Slow loading pages e Use of Windows or Mac specific fonts e Pages with no navigation options e Pages requiring university level reading skills e Displaying unsolicited popup windows e Pages with default titles like Untitled 1 e Using underlined text which looks like a link e Forms that require shifting from keyboard to mouse to complete e Long URLs which wrap onto two lines when emailed e Images that cause the page to jump about while loading Page 4 This document is for informational purposes only PowerMapper Software makes no warranties express or implied in this document Copyright 1996 2015 PowerMapper Softwa
4. anties express or implied in this document Copyright 1996 2015 PowerMapper Software Using Reports one click site testing Reports are broken down into a number of tabs and sub tabs e Summary o Dashboard o Site Map o What was Tested e Issues o Errors o Accessibility o Compatibility o Compliance Pro o Search Pro o Standards o Usability Pro e Pages o Inventory o Issues by Page Dashboard Overview of site issues issue count over time and benchmarks against similar sites Issues are divided into categories errors accessibility browser compatibility legal compliance search overview of site issues shows distribution of issues across site Summary of what was tested technical errors such as broken links WCAG and Section 508 accessibility browser compatibility issues legal compliance problems search engine guidelines amp best practice W3 validation and technical standards usability issues inventory of pages images scripts etc issues grouped by page i Summary W issues Pages http estimpresshq com Dashboard Site Map What was Tested guidelines standards and usability Clicking on a category title drills down to the Issues by Category report Site Map The bars shows error counts for each page allowing you to locate low quality areas of the site Clicking on a bar shows the Source View for the associated page Page 7 Category Benchmark against s
5. ectedly when the keyboard is used for navigation Browser Compatibility No major browser provides a full implementation of W3C standards Check your HTML CSS JavaScript and images work with desktop and mobile browsers Internet Explorer Firefox Safari Opera Google Chrome Check for over 150 issues including e Use of HTML tags and attributes not supported by all browsers e Use of CSS rules not supported by all browsers Internet Explorer in particular has patchy CSS support e JavaScript and DOM properties and methods that trigger bugs or aren t implemented e g in Page 3 This document is for informational purposes only PowerMapper Software makes no warranties express or implied in this document Copyright 1996 2015 PowerMapper Software Firefox window opener closed returns random values after a window is closed e Images that don t display in some browsers e g PNG files that are 4097 or 4098 bytes in length don t display in IE6 and BMP files only display in Windows browsers Privacy Pro Check for legal problems including e Use of cookies or tracking images without privacy statements Search Optimization Pro Check against search engine guidelines and best practices Google Search Guidelines Yahoo Search Guidelines Bing Search Guidelines Best Practice Keyword Optimization Check for over 60 issues including e Duplicate and missing page titles e Dynamic pages with too many U
6. ed into guidelines e g Google Webmaster Guidelines or Section 508 Accessibility Guidelines which can be enabled or disabled as a group Individual checkpoints can also be enabled or disabled This is often done when issues are triggered by code that can t be changed e g third party components Errors Check for over 40 major functional problems including e Broken links and anchors in HTML CSS Flash PDF and Office documents e Missing or corrupt images e Server configuration issues like inconsistent MIME types and character set encodings Script errors Domains about to expire SSL certificate problems Placeholder text like Lorem Ipsum and TODO Empty pages e Page code and content larger than a specified size page weight e Pages containing specified text e g inappropriate language competitor brand names e Pages missing required text e g disclaimers or analytics tags Spell Checker Check for spelling mistakes in English and French Accessibility Check that disabled users can access your site using national and international accessibility Standards e W3C WCAG 1 Levels A AA AAA e W3C WCAG 2 Levels A AA AAA e US Federal Section 508 Checkpoints include e Missing and placeholder ALT tags e Links only accessible via Flash movies e Poor text contrast e Animated images and sounds that cannot be paused e Pages without structural markup e Elements that behave unexp
7. formats include e HTML e Word RTF e Excel XML Page 9 This document is for informational purposes only PowerMapper Software makes no warranties express or implied in this document Copyright 1996 2015 PowerMapper Software one click site testing Advanced Options Application options are changed using the Options command on the View menu Reports Allows you to specify settings control how Popes many issues are reported Reports Blocks Links Advanced Reports Maximum pages shown for each issue 20 Maximum pages shown per issue The number of pages an issue is reported on in detail This reduces noise from issues in page templates that affect every page of a site Maximum line numbers shown for each issue 5 Maximum link limit for running rules 500 Checking Links to Other Sites Check all external links Limit to first 20 links to each external site Maximum line numbers shown per issue The number of lines per page an issue is reported on This reduces noise from issues like unescaped amp characters that can occur AAA on nearly every line of every page of a site Maximum link limit for running rules The maximum number of links per page that allow rules to run Pages with a very large number of links can cause the rules engine to consume large amounts of memory Checking links to other sites Either unlimited or the The number of outbound links checked per external site
8. is document is for informational purposes only PowerMapper Software makes no warranties express or implied in this document Copyright 1996 2015 PowerMapper Software one click site testing Adva nced ae Reports Blocks Links Advanced Server Load Timeouts EEEE Server Load Heavy g Light Lets you set a delay between loading pages ae en to avoid placing undue load on a server Page Timeout 10 secs p 60 mins i 3 00 min sec Page Timeout oie Controls the maximum time spent loading a_ Ewlore entire ste page the default setting is 1 minute O oir errepas 2 dids om the startpage User Agent Exploration Depth User agent string sent to web server Controls how deep the application will go Mozilla 4 0 compatible MSIE 7 0 Windows NT 6 1 WOW v into a web site The default setting is your entire site but you can restrict this to the top level pages of your site Change all application settings back to factory defaults Factory Reset User Agent Controls the user agent string sent to the web server which is often recorded in web server logs The default setting identifies the request as coming from a desktop browser You can also choose a SortSite user agent string or Supply a custom user agent string You sometimes need to supply a mobile browser user agent string to test some mobile sites because they redirect desktop browsers onto the main des
9. ites AJ v Overall Quality es 24 pages with quality issues v better than average Errors a 17 pages with broken links or other errors worse than average Accessibility en 20 pages with accessibility problems OR average Compatibility BE 14 pages with browser speafic issues A w an average Privacy 0 pages with privacy issues better tt average earch EH 20 pages with search engine issues z tha rage Standards Ki 9 pages have W3C standards issues X better than average Usability p 19 pages with usat better th 4 ig Totals and file no warranties express or implied in this document Copyright 1996 2015 PowerMapper Software This document is for informational purposes only PowerMapper Software makes Issues by Category The issues tabs show a list of issues for a single category e g accessibility with a summary of standards compliance status Clicking the expansion button next to each issue shows URLs of affected pages Clicking a URL displays the Source View for the URL Source View This view displays the source code of the file HTML CSS or JavaScript with issues and errors shown alongside the line of code that caused them This view also shows a summary of page attributes MIME type last modified date download time size list of links in and out list of images script files and CSS files Note Line numbers refer to the line in the HTML page served by the web server which may not correspond to line nu
10. ktop site Factory Reset This resets all settings back to the initial factory settings Page 12 This document is for informational purposes only PowerMapper Software makes no warranties express or implied in this document Copyright 1996 2015 PowerMapper Software one click site testing Recording Form Input SortSite Professional can record form actions for replay during a scan For example you can record text typed into your site s search box and have this search replayed during subsequent scans so that search results pages can be checked To record a form action 1 Navigate to the page containing the form you want to record For example www example com search 2 Select Record Form Input from the Check menu to start recording 3 Type your test values into your form and submit it This will display a new page with the results of the form submission e g a page of search results This new page will now be scanned each time the site is scanned 4 Select Record Form Input again to stop recording The recorded form action will be re submitted each time www example com search is scanned and the results of form submission checked for problems Technical details the Record Form Input command intercepts form GETS and POSTs and records in encrypted form the form fields in the post Each time the page containing the form is visited during future scans the form fields are re submitted and the HTML returned by the GET o
11. le Webmaster Gudeines Gest Pract AY t j t l M ne f O Click OK then scan your site Page 5 This document is for informational purposes only PowerMapper Software makes no warranties express or implied in this document Copyright 1996 2015 PowerMapper Software one click site testing Sharing Rule Settings The Choose Rules window allows you to import and export rules allowing you to share common settings with other team members This allows a team lead to define a corporate standard then distribute to other people on the team Mapping Password Protected Pages TO map a password protected authenticated site 1 Make sure Automatic Login is checked in the Options window click the Options command on the View menu and go to the Links tab 2 Login to the site in the usual way either via a login page or the popup password dialog 3 Once you ve logged in navigate back to your home page and scan your site Note If you have a logout link inside the secure area then the scanner may be logged out if it follows the logout link To prevent this happening go to Block Links click the Options command on the View menu and go to the Links tab and add something like the following sLogout This stops the scanner following links with logout in the URL You will need to adjust this to match the logout links if any used on your site Page 6 This document is for informational purposes only PowerMapper Software makes no warr
12. mbers used in server side scripts like PHP ASP NET and JSP Inventory List of pages and content on site broken down by type and technology Clicking the expansion button next to each file type shows a list of URLs of that type Clicking on URLs in the inventory displays the Source View for each URL Page 8 one click site testing WCAG1 WCAG2 Section 508 Key A e 6 Priority A disabled users will find it impos pag AA amp amp Priority AA dsabled users will find it difficut to 7 AAA Priority AAA disabled will find it som j m Priority URL Description lt A ONCLICK handiers should have an equivalent ONKEYPRESS handler Decorative blank ALT a G G ee Ensure web pages print well No Print links or CSS print styles were found on the site ses Rule Options v lt DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC W3C DTD HTML 4 01 1 lt html lang en gt lt InstanceBegin template lt head gt lt LINK HREF electrum css REL stylest lt BegqinEditable DOCUMENTTITLE lt TITLE gt Factua One Click Factsheet Pi Meta descriptions should be less than 170 characters ane Rule Options v lt META name description content Factua is a and mutual funds It c lt META name keywords content automat generating fund factsheets ge fact sheet printing factsheet lt EndEditable gt lt InstancePar Pages URLs Resource Type y HTML 45 pages HTML pages ASP 0 pages Clas
13. ocks links containing action edit Links Allows you to control which links are Options followed during the scan Reports Blocks Links Advanced Link Following Java Parameters Greco vest PARAMS tags canting ko Lets you choose whether links in lt PARAM gt Hig tags are followed If checked any parameters Check to follow links found in JavaScript and Flash movies containing url href or link in their a shop example com and www division example com names are treated as URLs Automatic Login Check to login to passworded pages during scans Navigate to a secured page before scanning to enter password Follow links to additional domains JavaScript and Flash Links Lets you choose whether links in JavaScript and Flash are followed For example function GoTo 7 the URL bigot ramel htm is extracted from this JavaScript code parent bigframe location href bigframel htm Follow links to related domains When checked the scanner will follow links to child domains e g if you scan domain com then links to store domain com and www domain com will be followed and sibling domains at the same level e g if you scan www domain com then links to secure domain com and www2 domain com will be followed Automatic Login Check this box if you need to scan password protected sites Follow links to additional domains Links to any additional domains listed in this box will be followed Page 11 Th
14. r POST checked for problems Backup and Restore SortSite stores site structure and issues in a binary schk file with generated reports stored in an associated folder with the same name as the schk file minus extension Files are only held open while reads and writes are in progress so saved data can be archived and restored using any backup solution Saving a file called Example produces the following files and folders Example schk h Example Map ACC htm Map htm N Report Res Page 13 This document is for informational purposes only PowerMapper Software makes no warranties express or implied in this document Copyright 1996 2015 PowerMapper Software
15. re one click site testing Scanning Sites Folders and Pages To scan a site Le 1 Navigate to the site using X N the built in web browser Eg XY 2 Click the Check button p mun The software will scan each page in turn and display a report once it s done Scanning Options Clicking the down arrow to the right of the Check button displays a menu that lets you e Check Entire Site the default action for the check button e Check Folder scan pages in the same folder starting the scan at www example com folder page htm scans pages with addresses starting www example com folder e Check Page check a single page only links are not checked e Check Page and Links check a single page and outgoing links e Check allows you to scan sites folders and pages as well as specify additional pages to scan such as landing pages e Recheck Current Page use when the Source View is displayed to re run checks on the page useful when retesting pages after fixing issues e Choose Rules chooses rules to run and other rule options Choosing Rules To choose which rules to run 1 Pick the Choose Rules Pick Choose Rules option from the Check menu 2 Untick the checkboxes for any rules you want to omit from the scan 3 Click OK ACompat Acces Gu 508 upto ononty AAA m ACo heck for A ger compatibility issues Acompliand Tick the checkboxes hack for k of issues to check for ASe Goog
16. sic ASP dynamic pages ASPX Opages ASP NET dynamic pages PHP 0 pages PHP dynamic pages Ruby 0 pages Ruby dynamic pages Other Opages Other dynamic pages Images URLs Resource Type GIF 33 images GIF images PNG Oimages PNG images amp JPEG 3images JPEG images image jpeg http www factua com factsheets images euro jpg image jpeg http www factua com factsheets images image001 jpg image jpeg http www factua com images map jpg Other Oimages Other image types This document is for informational purposes only PowerMapper Software makes no warranties express or implied in this document Copyright 1996 2015 PowerMapper Software Issues by Page List of issues broken down by page Each issue shows a list of affected pages Clicking the expansion button next to each URL shows issues for that page Clicking a URL displays the Source View for the URL Exporting Reports Pro Issues 30 26 28 29 one click site testing URL Description http www factua com http www factua com products index htm http www factua com products ee http www factua com products ms http www factua com products datasheet htm http www factua com products demo htm http www factua com factsheets rock pdf Use the LANG attribute to identify the language of the page PDFs must be tagged to be accessible by screen readers Reports can be exported using the Export command on the File menu Supported
17. suunetensresiiesuemesseaen 9 Advanced ODUONS rriniersricie niniin koeni a a i ai 10 PODO a AEE E E E 10 2 66 a eee eee ee ee ee eee 10 a a et ee ee ee er ee ee ee ee eer 11 PRG AICO Gi neancenccs cen nausea csmonerec E E assmeeneaesieenecs ees eansecacans 12 Recordio FORM LU reran EE 13 572 6 40 ofa gre Bia SOTO er E E ee een 13 Page 1 This document is for informational purposes only PowerMapper Software makes no warranties express or implied in this document Copyright 1996 2015 PowerMapper Software Overview Pro indicates features only available in SortSite Professional Edition Introduction to SortSite SortSite is a one click web site testing tool that runs hundreds of quality checkpoints on each page of a web site It produces easy to read reports that drill down from a high level dashboard to the exact location of each problem wy Summary issues Pages _ Hitp lest mpresshq com Dashboard SiteMap What was Tested Category Benchmark against sites All vi Overall Quality 24 pa with quality issues v better than average f y gt Errors Es 17 pages with broken links or other errors worse than average Accessibili i 20 pages with accessibility problems worse than average Compatibility l 14 pages with browser specific issues worse than average Privacy J pages with priva V better tt Sear ER pages with se worse g Standards fi pages have W3 jard V better tt Usability ee 19 page th usabil je
18. tter th Totals pag d files k Example SortSite Report How SortSite Works SortSite scans each page of a site by running checkpoints and then examines the page for links to un scanned pages It then scans the newly found pages and repeats this process until all pages have been scanned Pages are requested from the web server in the same way that a web browser requests them This one click site testing means the product works with password protected pages as well as server technologies like ASP NET JSP ColdFusion and SharePoint Web Server Request Web Pages SortSite This process is called web crawling and is used by search engine agents like Googlebot to find pages to index Like other well behaved web crawlers SortSite obeys the Robots Exclusion Protocol robots txt which describes areas of sites that are off limits to web crawlers In addition you can add URL patterns to ignore pdf to ignore all PDF files logout to ignore all URLs containing logout For more information see Advanced Options Blocks below Page 2 This document is for informational purposes only PowerMapper Software makes no warranties express or implied in this document Copyright 1996 2015 PowerMapper Software Each page is scanned for over 700 quality checkpoints Checkpoints one click site testing Each page is checked for quality issues using over 700 checkpoints Checkpoints are group
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