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Technical Content Analysis Fields

Field Type: Technical

Technical fields can be essential to an analysis, and they have the advantage of usually being relatively easy to gather. That said, we shouldn't use that as an excuse to impress each other with huge inventories with lots of technical fields that don't provide much value to our actual goals. Some technical fields can prove very useful (like the count of pages in each PDF).

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Crawl Depth
How many links the crawler needed to follow to get to this item.
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Consider instead: [IA] Depth
MIME Type
The technical content type reported by the web server, which the web browser uses to determine how to display it.
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Consider instead: File Format
Meta Description
The meta description. This is of limited use, aside from simply discovering what pages do not have a meta description (and therefore require one).
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Meta Keywords
Meta keywords. In most cases, very limited value. More precise meta tags (for instance topics) are usually far more useful if they exist.
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Consider instead: Topic
PDF Page Count
The count of pages in a PDF can help us understand whether there are primarily short PDFs (perhaps most easily converted to HTML) or very long PDFs (perhaps for specialist audiences).
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