How to check Link Auditor reports

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Why we check SSW Link Auditor reports everyday

SSW Link Auditor is a powerful tool to maintain our website, it can automatically scan the website and reports on broken links, warning links, inconsistent casing links and links which do not follow SSW Link Auditor rules.

We have scan schedules running every night on our internal site, and the scan result reports will be generated every morning. So we need to check the reports and fix links everyday.

In order to make sure the scan can be done in one night, we separate the scan into 4 small scans:

/ssw/
/ssw/events/
/ssw/standards/
/ssw/standardsInternal/

: Figure: SSW Link Auditor scan schedules

And the reports are on GODZILLA:

: Figure: SSW Link Auditor scan reports

How to check reports

There are 6 reports in the report folder:

: Figure: SSW Link Auditor reports

Open report "01 ?Link Auditor Summary Report" to check the scan result summary

: Figure: SSW Link Auditor report 01

If there are any bad links exist, open their details report by clicking on the numbers.

Open report "02 ?Link Auditor Scan Details Report" to check the broken and warning links

: Figure: SSW Link Auditor report 02

Bad link (pink parts) is reported with details reason (gray parts), you can locate it in the source page (yellow parts) by the position provided (blue parts).

Open report "03 ?Inconsistent Link Casing Report" to check the inconsistent casing links

: Figure: SSW Link Auditor report 03

Inconsistent link (pink parts) is reported with groups (same link with different cases), you can locate it in the source page (yellow parts) by the position provided (blue parts).

Open report "04 ?Link Auditor Rule Report" to check the links which do not follow SSW Link Auditor rules

: Figure: SSW Link Auditor report 04

Violate rules link (pink parts) is reported with details reason (yellow parts), you can locate it in the source page (pink parts) by the position provided (blue parts).

Additional Notes

After you fix the bad links on the internal server, remember to check them into TFS and upload them to our external servers.
Some links were caused by timeout, if it doesnï¿½t exists on the report everyday, you can ignore it.
If good links are mistaken reported, or you have any suggestions, please sent an email with the details information to SSW Link Auditor manager.

Acknowledgements

Evan Lin