Every Web surfer knows the frustration of clicking on a page and getting an error message.
Such situations happen with alarming frequency, according to officials at ParaSoft, a maker of Web content publishing tools. ParaSoft has published the results of an in-depth study that found a high error rate among Fortune 100 corporate sites. ParaSoft used SiteRuler 1.1, its newest Web content analysis and publishing tool, to run an error analysis on 97 of the Fortune 100 corporate sites. In all, the company evaluated nearly 300,000 Web pages and found more than 84,000 link errors and some 3.6 million coding errors. The frequency of errors that we found was much higher than we expected, said Arthur Hicken, executive vice president at ParaSoft.