Report list - Atmos

The report list provides information about each of the reports currently available from the Atmos website analysis and reports package. If you can't see what your looking for, why not get in touch and let us know, we're constantly evolving our products and your feedback is crucial.

Robots, crawlers & spiders

Search engine access

This report assesses how much of a website is accessible to search engines. Typically search engines deploy robots (AKA crawlers, spiders), which crawl the contents of a website for the purpose of indexing and ranking pages within their listings.

sitmap.xml creation

Though not strickly a report, Atmos can produce 'sitemap.xml' files (see sitemaps.org for details) which can be uploaded to the major search engines such as Google and Yahoo.

On websites that have constantly changing content, or that are very large, sitemaps can help to keep the search engines informed of changes and provide them with a comprehensive list of your websites pages.

Clients that use our Air CMS can take advantage of optional sitemap.xml tags such as date, change frequency and priority through the visual editor interface.

Content

W3C validation

This report validates the (X)HTML content within a website against three separate validation schemes. Each of the schemes validates the content with a different set of goals & requirements in mind, the results provide information about the contents suitability for the web.

Meta-tags

Part of a valid (X)HTML page is the head, within the head various non-visible information is defined. Some of this non-visible information is used by browser software and search engines to identify pages uniquely within a website. This report analyses the quality of this non-visible information and determines how useful it is to visitors and search engines alike.

Semantic quality

As with meta content, the tags and attributes used within an (X)HTML document provide browser software, screen readers, and search engines with guidelines on how to interpret content. (X)HTML tags provide a hierarchy for the content within a document, from simple relationships such as headings & paragraphs, to more complex structures like lists, and tables. Ensuring your content is well structured increases its accessibility and helps the search engines to correctly identify what content is important within a page. This report looks at quality of your contents semantic structure.

Size

Content size is the one constant factor that affects a page's load time. Keeping content size within an optimal range improves the visitor experience by helping to ensure acceptable load times, and can also impact search engines which have limits on the amount of content they can index per page.

For this report we use two mechanisms to measure the size of pages. The first mechanism measures the uncompressed size of each page excluding any associated resources. This data is then used to check that the content size does not exceed the indexing limits of the search engines.

Portability

Portability describes the ability for a resource available on your website to be read or used within different environments, such as operating systems and browser software (in a multilingual website it can also refer to translation).

This report examines the format of content available from a website, and reviews how portable that content is. Browser software, screen readers and search engine web-bots can only view resources in formats they understand.

Links

Broken links

How the resources within a website are linked together is crucial to how efficiently it can be navigated. This report reviews the link structures integrity by checking for missing links.

Content quality

As with title and heading tags, the contents of a link (or anchor <a>) tag is significant in defining a page's identity. Visitors and search engine web‑bots use the contents of a link to speculate about what is stored at the resource the link refers to. This report examines the quality of content within links.

Density

Link density refers to the number of links that are on an (X)HTML page. The link density effects the ability of both visitors, and search engine web‑bots to navigate a website. This report provides information on the density of links in pages.

Monitoring

Website uptime

Atmos can monitor key web pages on a website over the period of a month and report on the uptime of those pages during that month. Clients can also be alerted when key pages fail to respond.