New in Truwex 2.0 (updated)
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With the second release Truwex software product received a set of exciting new features. Web accessibility validation is even more detailed now. New reports deliver detailed data about websites. Truwex 2.0 connects to search engines APIs and receives website information from external sources. Scan speed is up to 50% higher. Truwex 2.0 consumes much less database disk space. Many bugs were fixed. We appreciate the community members, who tried Truwex and provided their feedback.
Download Truwex 2.0 trial version.
Web accessibility validation module updated
The Accessibility module was improved: new issues and many manual checks (warnings) were introduced into Truwex to cover all Section 508 and WCAG 1.0 priority 1 and 2 requirements as far as possible.Luminosity contrast formula was updated to comply with the latest WCAG 2.0 guidelines. Many bugs were fixed according to user feedback.
Website redirects tracking
Truwex 2.0 detects all types of redirects on a website. Truwex considers a web page as redirected when it opens one URL, but a browser displays another URL. Truwex detects two types of redirects: server side and client side.
Server side redirect is a correct way to inform website visitors (including search engines) that a web page is moved to another location. The most popular redirect codes are: 301 - Moved permanently and 302 – Moved temporarily.
Client side redirect happens in a user’s browser. It is executed by dynamic functionality like a JavaScript. The client side redirect is not transparent for search engines. It is used often by web sites to forward internet users onto a web page they do not expect, sometimes pointing to spyware or other malware. Client side redirects are not recommended for moving users to different content.
Truwex also reports multi-step redirects, when the target URL is reached through a number of redirects. Redirects information is available in the Inventory section (Websites & Reporting > My Websites & Results, select any task’s report > Inventory) and in issues from the SEO issues group.
Website inventory reports are completely redeveloped
The new Key Pages Report gives an idea, which pages are the most important on a website. It lists all web pages from a website by their depth and by their internal and external incoming links. The number of incoming links is collected from the Yahoo search engine API. The report is available at: Websites & Reporting > My Websites & Results, select any task’s report > Inventory page.
The new Linked Domains Report summarizes all domains used in website’s hyperlinks. This report helps to identify the direction of external links. The report is available at: Websites & Reporting > My Websites & Results, select any task’s report > Inventory.
Other reports:
• Broken and Suspicious Links report lists all broken hyperlinks and ones, which could be broken, found on a website’s pages.
• Website Forms Summary report.
• Cookies Report lists all cookies found on a website. Cookie data include cookie’s domain, path, is cookie persistent or session, is it third- or first-party, cookie name and value.
• Web Beacons Report lists all third party objects found on a website. It helps with verifying web analytics solutions and third party content on a web site.
• Pages with Frames report lists all pages with frames along with frame data such as frame name, title, source URL.
Retrofit workload estimate
Truwex 2.0 features a new report which help web developers evaluate their website improvement workload. The more bugs per page a website has, the more efforts it takes to redevelop. This report shows the number of pages with 0, 1, 2, 3, and more bugs per page on a chart. The report is available as all issues summary for the entire website (select in the Truwex menu: Websites & Reporting > My Websites & Results, select any task’s report > Home), and separately for accessibility, privacy and other issue categories (Websites & Reporting > My Websites & Results, select any task’s report > Issues, then expand “Issue charts” section).
Website compliance for top pages
If you plan to redevelop a website, it is practical to start from the top level pages. Truwex 2.0 shows compliance on 1, 2, and 3 levels deep in your website. This functionality helps to prioritize web developers’ work. If a “Depth 0-3” selected, the issue report is updated to show bugs detected only on web pages with depth up to 3. The depth 3 means a web page can be reached in three clicks from a home page. The charts along with the issues table are updated when the depth level changes (Websites & Reporting > My Websites & Results, select any task’s report > Issues page).
Issues and warnings
Truwex 2.0 classifies all website quality issues as errors or warnings. The errors are considered to be non-compliance problems to be fixed. Warnings just inform about possible problems. Errors and warnings are handled separately in all reports and statistics. A user can change status of every issue according to website’s standards.
Search Engine Optimization
Truwex 2.0 includes a number of validations to improve website visibility in search engines. The most important parameter is web page indexing by a search engine.
SEO validations in Truwex 2.0 include: • Indexed and unindexed pages by Yahoo and MSN • Incoming links by Yahoo • Duplicated pages detection on a website • Server Side and multi-step Redirects tracking • Client side dynamic redirects tracking to internal and external pages. • Meta data validation for duplicated and long HTML titles and descriptions • Robots.txt file analyses • Detection of links to websites which distribute spyware and malware
Improved usability
We try to make Truwex interface easier to use and the reports simpler to understand.
• Now a user can easily select specific accessibility standard to validate: Section 508, or WCAG 1.0 Priority 1 or Priority 1 and 2 issues; or to enable or disable accessibility warnings (manual checks).
• Web page properties were improved and linked to the visual Map report.
• The visualization Map has an option to select all issues of a single type.
• All reports have headers.
• Some reports, as broken links, received additional data to make them more explanatory.
Login to Web Forms
Truwex checks password protected web applications with login pages. It executes JavaScript every visit on defined login page, and then keeps the authentication session during website scan.
Using custom modules Truwex go though complex login processes, like RSA banking authentication.
About Truwex
Truwex 2.0 is a software product, which helps corporate users and web development agencies with creating high quality and compliant websites. Truwex uses an Internet Explorer browser to load and validate web pages. It means a level of accuracy that can’t be achieved with other tools. Truwex Results Visualization increases web developer productivity, a key success factor in large scale website retrofitting projects. Scalable Reporting delivers measurable results to management, website owners, and developers. Truwex validates the following web standards:
• Web Accessibility: US ADA Section 508, W3C WGAG 1.0 and the standards based on it as UK DDA PAS78, Germany BITV
• Web site quality: broken links, JavaScript errors
• Online privacy rules COPPA, PII, privacy policy, cookies, web analytics usage, third party content
• Website Search compliance and visibility in search engines.
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