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Site Construction (20%)
A site using standards compliant code with small page sizes and no horizontal
scrollbar at low resolutions will be useable by more visitors irrespective of their
operating system, browser, screen resolution, and connection method. Top content
is useless if your site takes so long to load that your visitors give up waiting
before it finishes loading or they can't see the pages properly once they have loaded.
The process of marking this section follows a standard formula so if you check
your pages for yourself first then you should easily get a high score for this
section (and improve your site at the same time).
The following criteria on how your site is constructed will be judged
based on the site home page and/or any other page or pages that AMRA determines.
If more than one page is chosen then average scores will be used. This section will be judged by
the AMRA webmaster. Where a site contains an initial splash page and a subsequent home page then both pages will almost certainly be included when considering the construction of your site.
Maximum points for each criteria are indicated by the numbers
shown in bold preceding each description.
- 10 Compliance to coding standards (subtract 1/2 for each error)
The selected page(s) will be tested against the
W3C HTML standards. Multiple
occurrences of the same error will only be counted once. Only the first
two occurrences of similar errors will be counted. If your site is hosted by
a free service that automatically adds code to your pages to display their
advertising then we will disregard any errors related to the added code. In this instance we may contact you to request a copy of the original HTML file for your
home page in order to identify the advertising code.
If you
want to check your page
for yourself first then here is an html validation form that you can use.
Alternatively, you might want to download HTML Tidy and use it to validate and fix your page.
- 07 Page size (< 30k = 7, < 40k = 6, < 50k = 4, < 60k = 2, < 70k = 1)
Home page over 80k = no score. Other pages over 80k will receive no score unless
a warning appears next to each link to the page advising that
it may take a long time to download.
Page size will be calculated by adding together the
sizes of all of the files that constitute the page including the html file,
all image files, client side scripts, and any multimedia files.
Note that where a site uses frames all of the pages initially loaded into the frameset will be included in the page size calculation not just the contents of the frameset. This is to properly reflect the total size of all files that need to be downloaded in order to be displayed in frames.
If you
want to check your page for yourself first then open the page in Internet Explorer
and select Save As from the File menu and in the Save as
Type field select Web Page, complete. This will save all of the
associated files into a single folder, just copy your original html file
to the same folder and check the folder size. This will be the actual size of
your page.
- 03 Monitor Resolution with no horizontal scrollbar visible
(640x480 = 3, 800x600 = 1, > 1024x768 = no score)
More than one vertical scrollbar at any resolution on a page using frames will also result in a no score.
If you want to
check your page for yourself first then use the following form (the page supports the
screen resolution properly if only one scrollbar is showing):
