What Does SiteSurfer Do?

SiteSurfer analyzes a web site or other set of documents, provides a log of that analysis, and creates a portable Java applet package suitable for searching and navigating the web site or document set. SiteSurfer users can create and use indexes on sites that they visit often, in order to quickly find any desired information on such sites.  SiteSurfer users are also informed of any web site integrity issues and other problems, so that the problems can be resolved.  While this is reviewed in this documentation in great detail, we'll highlight some of this here.

SiteSurfer analyzes a web site or other set of documents

• Intelligent user interface guides you through this process
• Multiple options for indexing a site remotely, locally, or through a proxy
• Extremely flexible options for enabling different capabilities in SiteSurfer's search engine
• Optional site map generation
• Optional site index generation
• Finds all unlinked pages in site (if Local mirror option is in use)

provides a log of that analysis

• Lists all pages reviewed
• Lists all bad links, including why the link was bad, where it was found, and where it was trying to link to
• Lists total number of pages with Titles, Authors, Descriptions, Keywords, etc.
• Provides detailed information on the total size of all files indexed, and the size of the generated indexes

creates a portable Java applet package suitable for searching and navigating the web site or document set

• The SiteSurfer Applet is 100% Java (compatible with Java 1.1 or later)
• Users visiting any site that has the SiteSurfer applet package installed will be able to use the applet to quickly locate their desired information on that site.
• Site Map provides hierarchical map of the information.
• Site Index provides sortable list of each page or document.
• Flexible embedded search engine provides many means of searching the data indexed, depending on which options were made available when the index was built.
• Unlinked pages (if the Local Mirror and Site Map options were used when building the index) will be listed separately