What is Your Time Worth?

How long would it take you to link check a page, validate it with the W3C Validator, and verify that it's delivered with correct HTTP headers? Sixty seconds? Nikita can do it 10-20 times faster, doesn't get bored and doesn't tire, unlike us humans. On the contrary, Nikita is meticulous and thorough as only a computer can be. And at two cents ($US .02) per page which translates into a typical cost of $10 - $15/hour^*, her time is probably a lot cheaper than yours.

Fast, Accurate, Cheap – Choose Three.

Nikita makes it possible to check your site's quality in ways that are impractical or impossible with other tools. In addition to the features mentioned above, here's some of the things Nikita gives you –

• Sitewide quality metrics about what percentage of your pages are valid. (Your boss will enjoy watching this number increase over time.)
• Downloadable reports
• Ad hoc queries (e.g. what pages on my site link to example.com/foo.html?)
• Followup crawls which check only pages that have changed since Nikita's previous visit
• Warnings about URLs with bad redirects
• Awareness of pages on your site you might not realize are public
• Complete platform independence since there's no software to install
• Won't tie up your computer and Internet connection

You can read a more extensive feature list or see examples of these features in Nikita's sample reports.

* Hourly rates are given only for rough comparison since Nikita charges for pages processed, not time consumed. Realistic hourly cost can vary from less than $5/hour for a small site to a little over $20/hour for a very large site crawled at top speed.