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Summary
These notes provide the complete set of eValid help messages for
the Site Analysis Filters menu.
See also the descriptions for the
Site Analysis Preferences
menu.
| Site Analysis Filters | |
| Menu Text | Explanation |
| Create Reports For | This menu helps specify which reports are to be generated during a site analysis run.
You don't have to select any reports if all you want is the site analysis map or page list
and the 3D-SiteMap display.
If you do select reports, eValid creates pages for them and shows you the results in real time during the search. |
| Pages loading | If you select this eValid report, each page found will have its complete download compared with the threshold value you pick. Pages that match the criteria are shown immediately in the on-screen report. |
| slower than | This means that you want to look at pages that load slower than the specified time (i.e. take a longer time). |
| faster than | This means that you want to look at pages that load faster than the specified time (i.e. take a shorter time). |
| "xxxx" msecs | This field specifies how many msecs (milliseconds) you want to use as your threshold. 1000 msecs = 1 sec. |
| Broken or unavailable pages | If you select this eValid report you will be shown the URLs of any page that the
eValid search process was unable to locate.
Such pages have a return error code of 400 or greater; the error code returned by the server is given in the report. |
| Off-site pages | If you select this eValid report you will be shown the URLs of every page that the search process considers as off the site. |
| Pages | If you select this eValid report, each page found will have its last-modified date compared with the date you specify, Pages that match the criteria are shown immediately in the on-screen report. |
| older than | If you select this eValid report, you will be shown the URLs of any page that has a date older than the age you specified. |
| younger than | If you select this report, you will be shown the URLs of any page that has a date younger than the age you specified. |
| "xxxx" days | This field specifies the number of days of page age to be used in this filter. |
| "xxxx" hours | This field specifies the number of hours of page age to be used in this filter. |
| Pages | If you select this eValid report, each page found will have its size compared with the threshold value you choose. |
| larger than | If you select this eValid report you will be shown the URLs of any page that is larger than the threshold. |
| smaller than | If you select this report, you will be shown the URLs of any page that is smaller than the threshold. |
| "xxxx" bytes | Here you specify the threshold size, in Bytes, for the report. |
| Pages matching search criteria | If you select this eValid report you will be shown the URLs of any page that contains an instance of the string that you specify. You can specify a simple string, or you can specify a regular expression. The report will show the first instance of matches in context. |
| text "xxx..." | This is the string you want to try to find (or not find) in the page. |
| Complete HTML | If you select this option then eValid will search the complete HTML of the page -- the entire text of the page. |
| Visible Text | If you select this option then eValid will search the visible text on the page. |
| META Tags only | If you select this option then eValid will search the text that lies within META tags. |
| URL only | If you select this option then eValid will search only the actual URL. |
| Case Sensitive | This option determines whether the checking of the string is done with our without case sensitivity. |
| Invert Logic (NOT) | If this option is selected the pages match if the string is NOT found. |
| Regular Expression | If you select this option the string match is done assuming that the match string is a Regular Expression (see product documentation). |
| Pages matching metrics criteria | If you select this option then eValid will compare selected metrics for all the pages it visits and present complete metrics information on the pages that meet the criteria below. You can select any combination of criteria (you should select at least one). The four criteria |
| Larger than | A pages is included if its size is larger than the specified size. |
| "xxxx" bytes | The threshold number of bytes for this match to be successful. |
| Contains over | A page is included if its link count is larger than the specified size. |
| "xxxx" links | The threshold number of links for this match to be successful. |
| Contains over | A page is included if its HTML element count is larger than the specified size. |
| "xxxx" HTML elements | The threshold number of HTML elements for this match to be successful. |
| Contains over | A page is included if its visible text character count is larger than the specified size. |
| "xxxx" visible text chars | The threshold number of visible characters for this match to be successful. |
