What does Web Assessment do?
It takes a web address you provide, tries to find up to 5 pages from inside it, and tests them for a range of criteria. At the end you get a free report scoring the website out of 10 for various tests, and awarding a 'Summary score' for all the tests.
Is it free?
Yes. Our Web Assessment tool is 100% free. If you’re looking for a more in-depth analysis, BDC Consulting’s specialists can conduct a complete website diagnostic and offer Internet strategy services targeted to your needs.
What user agent does Web Assessment use?
Our Web Assessment tool uses "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.3" for all requests.
I don't want my website to be tested!
You can prevent Web Assessment from testing a website and remove any existing reports for that site by implementing a Robots directive. You'll need to add the following 3 lines to your robots.txt file:
# Make Web Assessment ignore this site
User-agent: WABDCbot
Disallow: /
If you haven't already got a robots.txt, just create one in the root of your site (it should be publicly accessible via http://YOURDOMAIN.COM/robots.txt">http://YOURDOMAIN.COM/robots.txt) and include the above lines.
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Web Assessment will NOT obey a wildcard user agent, you need to explicitly deny WABDCbot.
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No matter what you put on the 'Disallow' line, Web Assessment will NOT test any part of a site which has a robots.txt file mentioning WABDCbot. This is in order to stop anyone manipulating the Web assessment scores.
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If the site in question has an existing report in Web Assessment, it won't automatically get deleted. You will need to visit Web Assessment, browse to the report and click the re-test button. Web Assessment will then detect the presence of the robots.txt entry and remove the existing report.
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If the Web Assessment report of a site has already been indexed by a search engine, it may take some time before the search engine updates its indexes to reflect the report being removed. The report may still appear in search engine results for a short time after it has been removed.