Generating site reports

Article
10/10/2017

Site reports in Microsoft Expression Web enable you to gather, analyze, and summarize site statistics in a variety of ways. In the reports, you can filter the data and display only the information that is relevant to you.

Two different classes of reports are available. Summary reports, available from the Reports tab of the Site View panel, provide quick overviews of various aspects of your site.

Note

To return to the Site Summary display from a summary report view, click the name of the report under the Site View tab and select Site Summary from the menu.

Comprehensive reports, available from the Tools menu, scan through the files in your site and provide detailed diagnostic data in a report panel that is displayed below the editing window.

Summary reports

Summary reports provide

Site Summary report

The Site Summary report provides you with a quick overview of the statistics available about your site. The Site Summary report provides a lot of useful numbers, such as the number and size of all the files in your site. This allows you to quickly see how much space your site is taking on the server. In the Site Summary report, you can click on the links under the Name column to go to other summary reports.

All other site reports are divided into three categories: Files, Shared Content and Problems.

Tip

You can use the Application Options to set report options. See Change site reports settings.

File reports

All Files Every file in your site, which is useful when you're looking for a file but can't remember which folder you saved it in.
Recently Added Files Files that were added to your site in the past 30 days. You can change the number of days that defines "recent". For more information, see Change site reports settings.
Recently Changed Files Files that were changed within the past 30 days. You can change the number of days that defines "recent". For more information, see Change site reports settings.
Older Files Files that haven't been changed in the past 72 days. You can change the number of days that defines "older". For more information, see Change site reports settings.

Shared Content reports

Dynamic Web Templates Pages attached to a Dynamic Web Template, as well as the Dynamic Web Templates.
Master Pages Pages using ASP.NET master pages.
Style Sheet Links Pages that import or reference external style sheets. For more style sheet reports, see Generating cascading style sheet reports.

Problems reports

Unlinked Files Files that have no hyperlinks to them from any of your pages.
Slow Pages Pages that take longer than 30 seconds to download at a connection speed of 28.8 Kbps. You can change the number of seconds and connection speed that defines "slow". For more information, see Change site reports settings.
Broken Hyperlinks Pages that contain broken hyperlinks to either internal site pages or links to other sites.

Comprehensive reports

Comprehensive reports take longer to run than Site Summary reports because they scan all of the files in a site to provide detailed site information. Comprehensive reports

Accessibility reports

Accessibility reports check the pages in your site for accessibility issues and help you fix them, improving the experience for site visitors with disabilities. For more information, see Accessibility reports.

Compatibility reports

Compatibility reports check the pages and CSS files in your site for code errors and incompatibility with the specified doctype and CSS schema. For more information, see Compatibility reports.

CSS reports

CSS reports display style errors, styles in use, and whether a particular style is used or not by a page. For more information, see CSS Errors and Usage reports.

SEO reports

SEO reports help you optimize the pages in your site for discovery and indexing by search engines. For more information, see SEO reports.