WebLight 5.0.1 Beta is available for testing through August 24. This is the first public beta of WebLight 5.0, the web site analyzer that helps webmasters maintain findable, reliable sites, efficiently.

What's New

• Generates sitemap files accepted by Google, Yahoo, MSN and other search engines.
• Added Atom, CSS, RSS, and Sitemap validation and link checking.
• Improved HTML and XHTML validation.

Download

• Mac Users - WebLight.dmg
• Windows Users - WebLight.msi
• Unix Users - WebLight.tgz (requires Java 1.5 or better)

Feedback Wanted

Please post comments, questions and bugs on the beta forum or email support@illumit.com.

Everyone reporting unknown, verifiable bugs will be given a 50% discount on WebLight 5.0 when it is released.

What's Next?

This is a beta release, there are some known problems and limitations.

Limited Sitemap Support

This release will create sitemap files that violate the protocol if a site has more than 50,000 URLs. These sitemaps may be rejected by search engines unless they are manually split. The next release will be able to write conforming sitemap/siteindex files for all sites.

The priority, and changefreq tags are not supported yet. In the future, WebLight will import priority, and changefreq values from sitemaps, allow them to be edited, and written.

Diagnostics Window

The diagnostics window will be re-designed to make identifying the problems that you want to fix and reviewing repairs easier.