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What Is W3C Validation And Why It Is Important?




W3C stands for “WORLD WIDE WEB CONSORTIUM” who are recognized standards organizations for the world wide web, is a group of experts, the public and it’s staff work together to deliver and maintain standards on the world wide web called as “Web Standards”.  The  markup validation service is a validator by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) that allow internet users to check HTML, XHTML documents for well-formed markup. Markup validation is an important step towards ensuring the technical quality of the web pages; however, is not a complete measure of web standards conformance. The act of checking a document against these constraints is called validation, and this is what the Markup validator does.

There are many tools suggested by the W3C to do this, and anyone who wishes to check the validity of any code available on the world wide web can use it.

Every software development team abide by the W3C specifications in every languages they are using.

To have your website validated means to have your website checked for it’s complacency towards the W3C standards. Using W3C validation tools, you are able to check how valid your codes are, what errors are present and how can you correct them. Once your site is validated completely for no errors, it means that your website will behave the same way or show up the same exact way as it was planned or designed on most of the standard web browsers (like IE, Opera and Mozilla Firefox) available today. There could be rare exceptions on this, but generally it means that your back end code follows the technical specifications suggested by the W3C.

Do I really need my site W3C validated?

This is a very often question. Many a times web designers and web masters think that having a beautiful design is enough to make their websites “standards” and “professional”. Unfortunately, the reality is far from it. The reason is that your website is not only what it is seen like on the browser, the code that's behind it matters equally. The W3C validation checks if the code is in accordance with it's specifications depending on the language used. And if not, the website would not be considered as "W3C valid" even though it's a kickass design there.

Why it is Important?

It’s important that your site is W3C valid to ensure the site works properly on your browser as well as the other major browsers such as Internet Explorer, firefox, Chrome etc. A website that contains many errors can suffer from many ill-effects.

The following are some of the ill-effects:-

·         Not displaying properly or consistently.
·         Not compatible with all major browsers.
·         Not displaying properly on devices of varying sizes like mobile devices.
·         Ranks badly on search engines (because they can’t read the code)
·         Loads elements slowly.

Additionally, websites that are coded to standards last longer and are “future-proofed” for the most part against browser updates and the like. If your code is bad, the chances of your website breaking as browsers update is greater than if the code validated. We believe in value for our clients and what good is a website that breaks a few months later?

Search Engine Spiders checks every website they visit for W3C validation. In fact, if the website is in compliance with the W3C specifications, then it's easy for the search engines to grab content from the website and accordingly place them in their index. The search engines are built the way W3C specifications are, so they are going to look for those metrics on all the websites, and if they are present on a website, that makes them "preferable" compared to the rest. 

So, if you want your website to be indexed well by the search engines, and enjoy the traffic from them, then you better check the W3C compliance of your website and tweak the code so that it validates well with the W3C tools. 

If website is not W3C validated, if it will hurt me?

Now its difficult to make a rock-solid statement on this. Ideally, W3C wants all the websites to be technically W3C standards compliant, but that being said, it might not be practically possible. We've seen that W3C non- compliant websites are hurt in the sense that they miss out on many opportunities. Like for instance, when Google decides to rank two websites on first and second positions, assuming that every other search engine optimization factor are equal, if one website fails to validate for the W3C guidelines, they then are likely to rank second and not first. We don't call it "getting hurt" right? It's simply a matter of utilizing the opportunities we have at hand.

Keeping in mind that a website can be coded with valid W3C markup, but still not be done well or properly in other ways, however this is a good test to see how well the site was coded.

Every website should meet W3C validation standards if at all possible. It is not only the “right” way to do it, but it has many lasting benefits, such extending the sites life expectancy, ensuring compatibility across browsers, increasing load-speed in many cases and much more. Hopefully this helps you understand why we think it is so important and why we test all of our websites for W3C validation before deeming a project complete.


In the nutshell, we should follow the W3C validations rules and guidelines and VaishnoG Softwares creates the websites to follow all the rules and guidelines of W3C standards.
If you want to create your business website according to the W3C validations standards so that so that you will not face any problem regarding the website design, development and seo, then contact us.


If you want to boost your business and promote sales include a well designed business website in your business plan, then contact us at vaishnogsoftwares@yahoo.in, shweta.vaishnog@yahoo.com or Call us - 87250-18881   or visit our Official website :

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