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Validation statistics from Nikita the Spider

About a year and a half ago I mentioned Nikita the Spider: a bulk validation and link checking tool as a useful quality assurance tool. Well, Nikita the Spider has received a lot of fixes since then and has recently been taken out of beta. It is no longer completely free, but the first 125 pages it crawls will cost you nothing.

But what may be more interesting is what Nikita finds when it crawls a site. Philip Semanchuk, Nikita’s author, has analysed the statistics Nikita collected during March 2008 and walks you through the results in By The Numbers – March 2008. A few highlights:

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April 29, 2008
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