Website Analyzer and CSS and HTML Validation

Note: We have a video tutorial:

To check and validate all pages in website, you will need to configure some of the following settings before you start website scan and analysis.

• Scan website | Data collection | Enable HTML/CSS validation.
• Scan website | Data collection | Validate HTML using W3C HTML Validator.
• Scan website | Data collection | Validate CSS using W3C CSS Validator.
• General options and tools | Tool paths | TIDY executable path.
• General options and tools | Tool paths | CSE HTML Validator command line executable path.

Please notice that:

• If you use W3C, the website scan and analysis will be slower due to the integration with online W3C validation tools.
• If you do not enable W3C validators, the crawler in our website analyzer tool will default to:
  • TIDY: HTML validation which is fast but less accurate.
  • CSE HTML Validator: Validation is fast and accurate for HTML and CSS validation.
• Remember that if you pause during scan, only pages with analysis done state have been validated.

After website scan has finished, you will need to configure the website analysis data columns you wish to see, in this case the CSS errors and HTML errors.

You can validate single pages using the integrated online W3C HTML validator and W3C CSS validator. While most online CSS validators and HTML validators are limited to websites already on the internet, this validation solution also supports CSS validation and HTML validation of websites on local disk and localhost.

CSS is an acronym for Cascading Style Sheets. File extension is often .css.
HTML is an acronym for Hyper Text Markup Language. File extension is often .html or .htm.