ArchiveReady: website archivability evaluation tool
August 9, 2015 8:22 PM Subscribe
ArchiveReady is a free (for personal use) online tool which evaluates if a website will be archived correctly by web archives, such as the Internet Archive.
ArchiveReady analyses your website (i.e. HTML, Images, CSS, JS, Sitemaps) and performs complex evaluations in order to calculate Website Archivability from a set of Archivability Facets: Accessibility, Cohesion, Metadata & Standards Compliance.
ArchiveReady analyses your website (i.e. HTML, Images, CSS, JS, Sitemaps) and performs complex evaluations in order to calculate Website Archivability from a set of Archivability Facets: Accessibility, Cohesion, Metadata & Standards Compliance.
Cynical option: rename it ArchiveVulnerable and double the commercial-use price.
posted by michaelh at 9:16 PM on August 9, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by michaelh at 9:16 PM on August 9, 2015 [1 favorite]
Can anyone from the Internet Archive confirm whether they endorse this? It sounds like a great tool and I'd love to start recommending it to my friends in web development.
posted by trackofalljades at 9:31 PM on August 9, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by trackofalljades at 9:31 PM on August 9, 2015 [1 favorite]
http://www.homestarrunner.com/
70%
- No images found in this page.
Therefore, it is easier to be archived.
Rating 100% Significance: Cohesion
- You are using proprietary external objects (Flash, Quicktime).
Proprietary formats are not recommended for long term preservation. Please consider changing your content to open formats.
posted by benzenedream at 9:33 PM on August 9, 2015 [2 favorites]
70%
- No images found in this page.
Therefore, it is easier to be archived.
Rating 100% Significance: Cohesion
- You are using proprietary external objects (Flash, Quicktime).
Proprietary formats are not recommended for long term preservation. Please consider changing your content to open formats.
posted by benzenedream at 9:33 PM on August 9, 2015 [2 favorites]
This thing convinced me to go find the sitemap.xml plugin for my pelican-generated cycling blog.
A lot of the "twitter js is third-party" warnings are fine, as I don't even browse my own blog with that stuff allowed through!
posted by rum-soaked space hobo at 3:16 AM on August 10, 2015
A lot of the "twitter js is third-party" warnings are fine, as I don't even browse my own blog with that stuff allowed through!
posted by rum-soaked space hobo at 3:16 AM on August 10, 2015
This page's overall rating: 57%
Wayback Machine version
posted by Rustic Etruscan at 3:28 AM on August 10, 2015
Wayback Machine version
posted by Rustic Etruscan at 3:28 AM on August 10, 2015
That page keeps changing between 81% and 57% for me. Does anyone understand what's going on there?
posted by taz at 5:20 AM on August 10, 2015
posted by taz at 5:20 AM on August 10, 2015
Okay, never mind; it changes as the html and css tab loads.
posted by taz at 5:27 AM on August 10, 2015
posted by taz at 5:27 AM on August 10, 2015
That page keeps changing between 81% and 57% for me.
It is super annoying, badly designed web program. DO NOT keep changing the most important thing on the page quickly when you're almost assured more data is yet to come. If you must, then DO provide a way for the user to tell if the final number has been reached, or if it could change again in 3 minutes.
This is the web accessibility version of the thing where every time you scold someone for bad spelling or grammar you end up misspelling a word or mixing up subject/verb agreement.
posted by jjwiseman at 11:03 AM on August 10, 2015 [2 favorites]
It is super annoying, badly designed web program. DO NOT keep changing the most important thing on the page quickly when you're almost assured more data is yet to come. If you must, then DO provide a way for the user to tell if the final number has been reached, or if it could change again in 3 minutes.
This is the web accessibility version of the thing where every time you scold someone for bad spelling or grammar you end up misspelling a word or mixing up subject/verb agreement.
posted by jjwiseman at 11:03 AM on August 10, 2015 [2 favorites]
DO provide a way for the user to tell if the final number has been reached
There's a little circular animation next to each of the facet headings that stops once the calculation is complete (to be replaced by a white number in a grey circle). When I saw the animation in motion, I assumed that meant it was still calculating. Do you see that on your display?
posted by paleyellowwithorange at 2:14 AM on August 11, 2015
There's a little circular animation next to each of the facet headings that stops once the calculation is complete (to be replaced by a white number in a grey circle). When I saw the animation in motion, I assumed that meant it was still calculating. Do you see that on your display?
posted by paleyellowwithorange at 2:14 AM on August 11, 2015
Do you see that on your display?
I do, and yet I've seen multiple people ask why the number keeps changing, so I think it's not sufficient.
posted by jjwiseman at 6:32 AM on August 11, 2015
I do, and yet I've seen multiple people ask why the number keeps changing, so I think it's not sufficient.
posted by jjwiseman at 6:32 AM on August 11, 2015
trackofalljades: Can anyone from the Internet Archive confirm whether they endorse this? It sounds like a great tool and I'd love to start recommending it to my friends in web development.
The Internet Archive - @internetarchive - retweeted a mention of it, so yeah, they're ok with it.
posted by Pronoiac at 2:52 PM on August 11, 2015
The Internet Archive - @internetarchive - retweeted a mention of it, so yeah, they're ok with it.
posted by Pronoiac at 2:52 PM on August 11, 2015
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