But I've been told that errors are not there / not affecting my site

28 Oct 2002

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Are you walking on water - or thin ice - they are seductively the same - especially if you generally have cold feet!

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1. ONLY fully automated 'whole site' website testing can provide the 'due diligence' validation and verification of a website as a capital asset to the level that is the minimum requirement of other such assets - breweries, manufacturing plant, packing lines, vehicles etc.

2. Manual and/or internal testing cannot handle the sheer volume of tests required on even quite a simple site (the average corporate site has 450 pages requiring over 6 million tests which would take at least month manually).

3. Automated testing should include standards compliance (W3C), and ensuring operating capability across the plethora of server, hardware, operating systems, browser types and individual user equipment. These can't be tested manually or internally AT ALL.

4. Because of the unavailability (until now) of automated testing, 97% of sites have errors and other problems which can only imperil website performance, objectives and return on investment.

5. Given the high level of investment in websites, this could represent a misrepresentation or exaggeration of the asset value - in the domain of auditors (who could down-rate the asset impacting on both balance sheet and P&L), shareholders, and regulators - e.g. USA CEO must now personally sign and verify Annual Report and Accounts - otherwise he/she faces a $5m fine, director disqualification and up to 20 years imprisonment.

A Sitemorse test of your site is free to first-time users and will either reassure you that your site has no errors or alert you to the fact that, whatever you have previously been told, this is not the case.