Analyze Reports

This Web Archiving Service video tutorial will help you understand how to analyze your reports.

This Web Archiving Service video tutorial

will show you how utilize the various

report options available to you.

The reports you can run are listed

under the "Reports" tab

when viewing the overview of an individual capture.

Each report has a brief description

explaining its function.

The most important report is

the "Crawl Log."

This report gives you detailed information

about your capture and can help you determine

any errors that were encountered

during the crawl.

You can search for a particular item

to see whether or not it was captured.

Use Ctrl-f on a PC or Command-f on a Mac

to search for the filename.

Then find the corresponding Heritrix

or HTTP status code

that is in the second column.

The main Heritrix codes that you will encounter

are "1," which means successful DNS lookup performed;

"200," which indicates that the item was successfully captured;

"403," which tells you that the item requires

authorization to be viewed, and therefore

was not captured;

"404," which means that the item could not be found,

and therefore was not captured;

"-9998," which means that there was a robots.txt exclusion

for this item, and it was not captured.

These tools are great for browsing

and troubleshooting on your own,

but know that we're happy to work with you

to research any errors or problems

that you come across.

In addition to the "Reports" tab,

we also a useful page of quality assurance tools.

Using the dropdown menu beneath the "Captures" tab

to choose "QA Tools" will take you to the list

of quality assurance tools.

These tools will help pinpoint areas

that are causing problems within your captures.

Each tool has a brief explanation.

For example, checking the list of redirected seed URLs

will clue you in as to which sites

may need updated URLs in order to continue

capturing correctly in the future.

In order to update a URL,

simply click on the "Edit Site" link,

and then change the seed URL information

on the "Edit Site" screen.

This has been a tutorial on analyzing reports.

Check out our additional tutorials

on analyzing capture results,

and comparing captures,

to better understand your capture results.

As always, if you have questions,

feel free to contact us at [e-mail]