W3CLove is a site-wide markup validation tool. It allows you to check the validity of the markup of several pages from your website, and gives you a summary of the most common errors and warnings, with a single click.
The official W3C validator does not yet provide a way to submit several URLs at once. So, if you want to check your whole website, you need to submit each of your URLs individually, which is a slow process. W3CLove provides a simpler, faster way to submit several pages at once.
To submit a site, just enter its URL on the front page, and click the "Validate" button. The W3CLove spider will crawl the site in search for internal links, validate each of them, and then compile all errors and warnings in one summary.
The W3CLove spider will crawl the provided URL in search for internal links, but you can also provide an XML sitemap with the exact URLs you need to validate.
Yes, there is a limit of 250 URLs per each sitemap submitted. This should be enough for most sites to get a good idea of the validation status of the site, and saves processing time for both W3CLove and the W3C validator.
Just click on the "Re-check" buttons. You can recheck the whole sitemap or individual pages.
Yes, W3CLove lets you store for free a list of the sitemaps you're interested in validating. Just sign in with your Twitter, Facebook or Google account and every sitemap you validate will appear on your sitemaps list.
When you sign up for the first time at W3CLove, you're given 100 initial credits so you can try the service for free.
For every single web page validation that you make using our service, you're charged 1 credit. So, for example, if you start with 100 credits and you validate a site that has 30 web pages, you end up with 70 credits.
Once you spend all your credits, you can't make more validations until you recharge them.
The easiest way to recharge your credits is through a monthly subscription.
This way, your credits will be recharged every month up to the monthly limit of your chosen plan.
Check out the Plans and pricing page to see what plan is best for you. If you're not sure about how many validations you need, you can buy packs of validations.
For your convenience, you're first shown 3 ways to sign in: Twitter, Facebook and Google. When you use one of those, W3CLove will remember your preference and offer just this one.
If you'd like to change this preference, just sign in again with your preferred account:
twitter, facebook or google.
W3CLove is a personal project maintained by Jaime Iniesta, an independent web developer who loves working with Ruby on Rails. That's me. :)
During March 2011 I took the Ruby Core Skills course at the Mendicant University, an intense three week course that takes you through several important topic areas every Ruby developer should be comfortable on. You can read more about it at my blog.
With the help of Gregory Brown and the rest of the Mendicant University Alumni, I built the w3clove gem that allows you to do site-wide markup validation from the command line.
Afterwards, I built this W3CLove.com site to make it easier for everyone to do site-wide markup validation, with a nicer HTML interface, storing the results for later, rechecking, etc.
I want to express my gratitude to all the Mendicant University community, all of them are still helping me making W3CLove a better tool for everyone. Thank you!
No, this is a paid service, but you can try it for free.
Yes! There's a free, standalone version that you can install on your computer. It's packed as a Ruby gem and it's open source, so you can examine the code and contribute to it if you wish.
You can find the w3clove gem at Github.
Yes! I've started building an API. It's not finished yet, but you can already validate sitemaps and pages with it. Read more about it at the API V1 Reference page.