site:

audit(tree)

This audits the site defined by the given tree for broken internal links. It first crawls the site using crawl, then reports back any errors.

Currently, the audit only checks for links that point to internal files of the following types:

  • .css
  • .html
  • .js
  • .xhtml
  • sitemap.xml

The crawler does not currently verify links to internal resources of other types, such as images. It also does not verify links to external pages and resources outside the site being audited.

Auditing an Origami site

You can give audit the top-level file that defines your site’s root.

Example: a brokenLinks.ori file contains a tiny site with an index.html page that links to pages a.html and b.html:

// brokenLinks.ori
{
  index.html: `
    <a href="a.html">A</a>
    <a href="b.html">B</b>
  `

  a.html: "Page a"
}

$ ori audit brokenLinks.ori
index.html:
  - b.html

Here audit reports that index.html has a link to a non-existent page b.html.

Because Origami treats all trees equally, you can also audit a folder of HTML pages. For example, if you’re using copy to build your site, you could audit the build output folder:

$ ori audit build

Auditing a site directly (via the .ori example above) lets you audit it without having to build it first.

Auditing a live site

Using Origami’s httpstree: protocol, you can treat a live site as a traversable tree that audit can audit.

Example: The venerable Space Jam web site has hundreds of pages which, despite being written by hand, contain very few broken internal links. As of this writing (October 2024), an audit of that site produces the following:

$ ori audit httpstree://www.spacejam.com/1996/
cmp/lineup/lineupnoframes.html:
  - cmp/lineup/triviaframes.html
cmp/lineup/quiz6.html:
  - cmp/lineup/quiz6b.html
  - cmp/lineup/quiz6d.html

The audit shows that, for example, the quiz6.html page in the site’s Trivia Quiz contains two broken links.