I checked with one of our Unix experts, who says that you would be
able to use wget and grep to download a page and look for page tags
and links and check the page tagging integrity, assuming that:

- Your page tags are always in the same format (i.e. the code is not
split across lines differently)
- Your site only uses plain links, no JavaScript menus or onClick links
- You can navigate your site without using flash
- You can confidently assume that all of the other JavaScript in your
pages will not cause the page tagging JavaScript to fail
- Your site doesn't use <base> html elements
- Your grep command handles <a> elements that are split over multiple
lines, and multiple <a> elements per line
- Your grep command handles other navigation elements, such as <frame>
or <iframe>
- Your site doesn't need a login or session cookies to be viewed.

These are some conditions - not a complete list - that would keep this
from being an optimal approach. The best alternative is to utilize a
product that can handle all those conditions, regardless of the site's
operating system, web server, content creation solution or
methodology, or web analytics vendor.

Debbie Pascoe
MAXAMINE, Inc.


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> If you are UNIX-literate (or have such folks available to you), a simple
> 'wget/grep' command should be enough.
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