- Total resources found
- This a count of the unique URLs on your site that Nikita
visited and found present (i.e. returned an HTTP status code of 200).
Note that if you're in the unusual situation where the option to check
parameterized links is on but the option to visit parameterized URLs is off,
then then checked links will not be included in this count.
- Total pages
- This a count of all the (X)HTML pages on your site. More specifically, it is a count
of the unique URLs on your site that Nikita visited and which returned (a) an HTTP
status code of 200 and (b) an (X)HTML media type.
- Total readable pages
- This is the total page count minus the number of pages that Nikita was unable to decode
using the page's explicit or implied encoding (character set). It's bad news if this
is less than the total pages.
Note that browsers are very good at handling miscoded pages; Nikita is much less
forgiving. She makes no attempt to decode the page with any likely alternate encoding
nor does she try to ignore troublesome characters. This may be frustrating but it is
consistent with Nikita's goal of helping you to achieve strict conformance to standards.
If Nikita can't understand it, there's a good chance some other user agents will fail
on it too.
You can read in
detail about how Nikita determines a
page's encoding.
- Total valid pages
- This is the readable page count minus the number of pages on which Nikita found
validation errors.
- Page Size -- Mean, Median and Mode
- These statistics are all calculated based on the sizes of the readable pages.
Unreadable pages are ignored. The mean is an arithmetic mean expressed in bytes rounded
off to the nearest integer. The list of mode page sizes can contain duplicate values due
to rounding of the displayed values. In other words, the actual mode values differ but
only by values of less than .01 KiB.
- Links
- A link is any reference to another resource. For instance, the
href
attribute of an <a> element counts as a link as does the src
attribute of an <img> or <frame> element. Nikita
breaks down the links she
sees by scheme (the part of a URI that comes before the ":" or "://"). Note that
javascript: links are not references to JavaScript files but are
<a> elements coded like
so: <a href='javascript:alert("boo!");'>. Links in the "Other" category
are often mistakes, so watch out for these.
Nikita further divides HTTP, HTTPS and FTP links into internal and outbound based on
the destination of the link. Destinations in the same domain as the seed URL are
internal, all other destinations make a link outbound. Note that if the seed URL is
www.example.com, a URL with a domain like news.example.com or
ftp.example.com is considered outbound.
- Media Types
- This is a list of the media types reported to Nikita in the HTTP Content-Type header
of the URLs she visited. Nikita counts the percentages shown based on the total
number of resources that she found.
URLs that don't supply a media type are assigned one of
application/octet-stream as per
Section 7.2.1
of HTTP 1.1.
- Encodings
- This is a list of the primary encodings supplied for each page. If a
page specifies multiple encodings, only one is listed here. Percentages are calculated
based on the total number of pages. You can read in
detail about how Nikita determines a
page's encoding.
- Doctypes
- This is a list of the doctypes supplied for each page. Percentages are calculated
based on the total number of readable pages.
