Validating an entire site

Using the W3C validator to check a single document is easy. But what if you need to validate an entire site consisting of hundreds or thousands of pages? Read Validating an entire site at Standards-schmandards, where Pete explains how to install the W3C validator and use it to batch validate entire sites.

Excellent stuff, and it caught a couple of errors that had managed to sneak their way into a site I’m currently working on.

Posted on May 10, 2005 in (X)HTML, Quicklinks, Web Standards

Comments

  1. May 10, 2005 by Agustin

    You might also try http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/

  2. May 11, 2005 by Jens Meiert

    Huh, just use the “Validate entire site” option of the WDG HTML validator…!?

    By the way, this option is preselected if you even use UITest.com’s Site Check; you just need to enter the URL and test your site.

  3. May 11, 2005 by Roger Johansson (Author comment)

    Well, what if you are working on a site that is behind a firewall, or a site that is not yet released? Or if you want to be able to control the output of the validation results? Get the results in a CSV file? There are plenty of uses for a local validator.

  4. May 11, 2005 by Jens Meiert

    Yeah, that’s right, but IMHO these are special cases so normally a web-based validator would suffice. And the WDG validator works quite fine.

  5. June 7, 2005 by Rich Pedley

    But the WDG validator is limited to a max of 100 pages. Either via the ‘Validate entire site’ option, or via the batch mode.

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