Alternatives to Nu Html Checker
The W3C's online checker that tests HTML documents against current HTML conformance rules. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Nu Html Checker
The W3C's online checker that tests HTML documents against current HTML conformance rules.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Nu Html Checker.
W3C Markup Validation Service
The W3C's free service for checking the markup of HTML and XHTML documents.
W3C Markup Validation Service targets HTML and XHTML with doctype and encoding choices, but marks HTML5 validation as experimental.
Rocket Validator
A hosted crawler that runs HTML, CSS and accessibility checks across thousands of site pages.
Rocket Validator is a paid hosted crawler that runs HTML and accessibility checks across up to 5,000 pages per report instead of one document.
AChecker
Online accessibility checker that tests a URL, uploaded file or pasted HTML against WCAG and Section 508.
AChecker focuses on WCAG and Section 508 accessibility and offers HTML validation only as an option, with guidelines stopping at WCAG 2.0.
HTMLProofer
A Ruby tool that tests rendered HTML files for broken links, images and markup problems.
HTMLProofer is an open-source Ruby tool that tests local rendered HTML files in CI for markup problems as well as broken links and images.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
W3C CSS Validation Service
The W3C's free service for checking CSS and style sheets in HTML documents.
W3C Link Checker
An online W3C tool that finds broken links and anchors on a web page or whole site.
Schema Markup Validator
The official Schema.org web tool for validating structured data markup on a page or snippet.
XMLValidation.com
A free online tool that checks XML documents for syntax errors and validates them against DTDs or XML schemas.
W3C Feed Validation Service
A free W3C web service that checks the syntax of Atom and RSS feeds.
JSONLint
An online JSON validator and formatter that tidies and checks pasted or fetched JSON.