Gradings

How We Grade Your Site

'Fred', our sophisticated Web-Crawling Spider, will visit your site and examine all pages within it. This procedure costs you nothing, as it is all done from our site.

It counts the total contents. Pages, including contents, exceeding 50k will be awarded 5 points, with a further 5 points for each 25k in excess of that amount. Pages larger than 400k will qualify for a Web Colossus Star Seal.
It checks for vendor-defined extensions and awards points for each one found as follows:
- MARQUEE = 10 points per occurrence
- BGSOUND = 15 points per occurrence
- FONT FACE = 10 points per occurrence
- FRAMESET = 10 points per occurrence
- BLINK = 5 points per occurrence
- NOFRAMES= -10 points per occurrence if it contains helpful information,
  100 points if it says 'Best viewed with "Browser X"'
  200 points if it says 'You are frame challenged, sod off!' or equivalent.
- EMBED = 10 points per occurrence
- JAVASCRIPT = 10 points per occurrence
- VBSCRIPT = 40 points per occurrence
- ACTIVEX = 40 points per control
It checks to see whether the page will work on a number of browsers, on a number of computer and operating system combinations and awards points as follows:
- Less than 50 browsers = 10 points
- Less than 30 browsers = 20 points
- Less than 10 browsers = 30 points
- Less than 5 browsers = 50 points
- Less than 3 browsers = 80 points
- Only 1 browser = 100 points
- Only 1 browser and 2 operating systems = 200 points
- Only 1 browser and 1 operating system = 500 points
It checks images for ALT texts and deducts 5 points for each one found. There is a risk that ALT texts might make images intelligible to browsers with images turned off, so that visitors to the site might avoid viewing them, which is not what we want, is it?

This technologically unique process ensures a consistently fair evaluation of each site visited, so you may display our awards secure in the knowledge that they are totally unbiased.

Tip 1: To make your site viewable as you wish it to be on only one operating system, set the FONT FACE to ARIEL if it's for Windows, or CHICAGO if it's for a Macintosh. That puts you well on the way to gaining 500 points!
Tip 2:If you want to foul up NetsCrape, why not make the whole page BLINK, or enclose the whole BODY text in NOFRAMES.
Tip 3:If you want to foul up Internet Exploder, why not enclose the whole BODY text in MARQUEE and set its direction to BACKWARDS.
Tip 4:If you want to foul up BOTH of these browsers, why not set the FONT FACE to DINGBATS, WINGDINGS

Wouldn't it be a real challenge to make a totally unviewable page! However, we don't award any points for those - it's a risk you take if you try these tips!

New - 'Custard Pie' Awards

We've also got a new 'Custard Pie' Award for bloated webpages generated by Mega$loth® products such as FatPage®, Weird® etc.

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