This section describes the steps that need to be done before you can use the Quality Assurance feature.
The Quality Assurance feature is included in all subscriptions and does not require special admin setup, except for the Readability function. For more information, visit Quality Assurance Readability setup.
Scan the site at least once to gather data. For more information, visit Domain scan setup.
Instructions
This section provides information on how to find and correct quality assurance errors.
Click Quality Assurance (the checkbox icon), on the dashboard toolbar for the domain.
The Quality Assurance page opens.
Use the menu on the left to see more. The following sections provide information on each menu item.
Summary
Click Summary from the menu on the left side of the page to navigate to the Quality Assurance summary page.
The Quality Assurance Summary page opens. The sections on the landing page are:
Quality Assurance Check
Quality Assurance Diagnostics
Readability
Quality Assurance: Readability
Content with QA Errors
Quality Assurance: Content with QA Errors.
Quality Assurance Check
This section displays the number of pages affected by broken links, broken images, potential misspellings, and (confirmed) misspellings.
Click Unique Broken Links to navigate to the Broken Links page. Navigate between All broken links, Ignored, or Marked as fixed.
The columns show the following:
Broken Link: This column shows the full address of the broken link. For more information, visit:
Click Broken images to navigate to the Broken Images page.
The columns show the following:
: This column shows the full address of the broken link.For more information, visit:
Note
The difference between Mark as Fixed and Ignore is that issues marked as Fixed are still included in future scans and can be flagged again if the error persists. Issues that are set to Ignore are permanently omitted from future scans and compliance scores.
This section displays the most significant quality assurance findings.
Click on any item to navigate to the details page for the error.
Quality Assurance Diagnostics
Displays the percentage of overall quality assurance compliance achieved, as well as a circular chart that gives a visual percentage result. There is a breakdown of the total number of quality assurance issues and the total number of pages that have issues. A line graph displays the number of quality assurance issues and content with issues.
Quality Assurance Compliance: This figure displays the percentage of issues that your website is compliant with. The goal is to achieve 100% of the accessibility level selected.
The compliance score for the quality assurance check is calculated by dividing the total number of page errors found by the total number of page errors plus the total number of documents, multiplied by 100.
Quality Assurance reports
The available reports for the Quality Assurance module are:
Quality Assurance Report
Pages with Quality Assurance Errors Report
Broken Links Report
Misspellings Report
Pages with Misspellings Report
Potential Misspellings Report
Readability Score Report
Broken Links Per Page Report
Misspellings Per Page Report.
Click Schedule This Report (calendar icon) on the same row as the report to receive the report as an email attachment. Multiple selection is allowed.
Click Open Report (eye icon) to get the newest report.
Click Report Administration (gear icon) to add other users to receive the report.
Download the Chrome Extension: (Optional) Download and install the Web Browser Extension. This extension is not required but is very useful to help identify content issues for easy handling.
Tip: Add the extension to the browser toolbar for easy access.
This section describes the steps that need to be done before you can use the Quality Assurance feature.
The Quality Assurance feature is included in all subscriptions and does not require special admin setup, except for the Readability function. For more information, visit Quality Assurance Readability setup.
Scan the site at least once to gather data. For more information, visit Domain scan setup.
Instructions
This section provides information on how to find and correct quality assurance errors.
Click Quality Assurance (the checkbox icon), on the dashboard toolbar for the domain.
The Quality Assurance page opens.
Use the menu on the left to see more. The following sections provide information on each menu item.
Summary
Click Summary from the menu on the left side of the page to navigate to the Quality Assurance summary page.
The Quality Assurance Summary page opens. The sections on the landing page are:
Quality Assurance Check
Quality Assurance Diagnostics
Readability
Quality Assurance: Readability
Content with QA Errors
Quality Assurance: Content with QA Errors.
Quality Assurance Check
This section displays the number of pages affected by broken links, broken images, potential misspellings, and (confirmed) misspellings.
Click Unique Broken Links to navigate to the Broken Links page. Navigate between All broken links, Ignored, or Marked as fixed.
The columns show the following:
Broken Link: This column shows the full address of the broken link. For more information, visit:
Click Broken images to navigate to the Broken Images page.
The columns show the following:
: This column shows the full address of the broken link.For more information, visit:
Note
The difference between Mark as Fixed and Ignore is that issues marked as Fixed are still included in future scans and can be flagged again if the error persists. Issues that are set to Ignore are permanently omitted from future scans and compliance scores.
This section displays the most significant quality assurance findings.
Click on any item to navigate to the details page for the error.
Quality Assurance Diagnostics
Displays the percentage of overall quality assurance compliance achieved, as well as a circular chart that gives a visual percentage result. There is a breakdown of the total number of quality assurance issues and the total number of pages that have issues. A line graph displays the number of quality assurance issues and content with issues.
Quality Assurance Compliance: This figure displays the percentage of issues that your website is compliant with. The goal is to achieve 100% of the accessibility level selected.
The compliance score for the quality assurance check is calculated by dividing the total number of page errors found by the total number of page errors plus the total number of documents, multiplied by 100.
Quality Assurance reports
The available reports for the Quality Assurance module are:
Quality Assurance Report
Pages with Quality Assurance Errors Report
Broken Links Report
Misspellings Report
Pages with Misspellings Report
Potential Misspellings Report
Readability Score Report
Broken Links Per Page Report
Misspellings Per Page Report.
Click Schedule This Report (calendar icon) on the same row as the report to receive the report as an email attachment. Multiple selection is allowed.
Click Open Report (eye icon) to get the newest report.
Click Report Administration (gear icon) to add other users to receive the report.
Download the Chrome Extension: (Optional) Download and install the Web Browser Extension. This extension is not required but is very useful to help identify content issues for easy handling.
Tip: Add the extension to the browser toolbar for easy access.
Add to dictionary for all languages: Approve this spelling (proper nouns etc.) and add it to the language dictionary for all languages so that future scans will not flag it as misspelled.
Ignore misspelling: Omit the issue from future scans.
Mark as fixed: Use this option when the issue is fixed on your website. Items that are marked as fixed are included in future scans.
Note
The difference between Mark as Fixed and Ignore is that issues marked as Fixed are still included in future scans and can be flagged again if the error persists. Issues that are set to Ignore are permanently omitted from future scans and compliance scores.
Click Misspellings to navigate to the Misspellings page.
The columns show the following:
Word: The word that has been tagged as a misspelling.
PageCorrect: Click to use PageCorrect to quick-fix the issue. A dialog box opens. The misspelling is highlighted, enter the correct spelling into the text field and then click Save.
Add to the dictionary for all languages: Approve this spelling (for example, a product name) and add it to the language dictionary for all languages so that future scans will not flag it as misspelled.
Ignore misspelling: Omit the issue from future scans.
Mark as fixed: When the issue is corrected in the HTML code for the page, mark it as fixed. It will be included in future scans.
Check frequency: The frequency of the check.
Important
The dashboard always shows data with the default profile selected. To change this, select a new profile (click the drop-down arrow to see the available profiles). Please be aware that changing the profile causes the numbers on all 3 sections inside the Performance feature to update accordingly.
Graph with performance speed and date as well as a donut chart showing the average performance score.
Scan history results: This table shows valuable scan data from previous scans.
Scan history results: This table shows valuable scan data from previous scans.
Crawled at: Date and time of scan.
Pages crawled: Number of pages scanned.
Documents crawled: Number of documents scanned.
Domain compliance: Percentage of compliance achieved.
Comparison to average: The score of the website as compared with the average score within the industry.
QA errors: The number of errors, broken down into category icons.
Changes since previous crawl: Percentage of changes made since the last scan.
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Add to dictionary for all languages: Approve this spelling (proper nouns etc.) and add it to the language dictionary for all languages so that future scans will not flag it as misspelled.
Ignore misspelling: Omit the issue from future scans.
Mark as fixed: Use this option when the issue is fixed on your website. Items that are marked as fixed are included in future scans.
Note
The difference between Mark as Fixed and Ignore is that issues marked as Fixed are still included in future scans and can be flagged again if the error persists. Issues that are set to Ignore are permanently omitted from future scans and compliance scores.
Click Misspellings to navigate to the Misspellings page.
The columns show the following:
Word: The word that has been tagged as a misspelling.
PageCorrect: Click to use PageCorrect to quick-fix the issue. A dialog box opens. The misspelling is highlighted, enter the correct spelling into the text field and then click Save.
Add to the dictionary for all languages: Approve this spelling (for example, a product name) and add it to the language dictionary for all languages so that future scans will not flag it as misspelled.
Ignore misspelling: Omit the issue from future scans.
Mark as fixed: When the issue is corrected in the HTML code for the page, mark it as fixed. It will be included in future scans.
Check frequency: The frequency of the check.
Important
The dashboard always shows data with the default profile selected. To change this, select a new profile (click the drop-down arrow to see the available profiles). Please be aware that changing the profile causes the numbers on all 3 sections inside the Performance feature to update accordingly.
Graph with performance speed and date as well as a donut chart showing the average performance score.
Scan history results: This table shows valuable scan data from previous scans.
Scan history results: This table shows valuable scan data from previous scans.
Crawled at: Date and time of scan.
Pages crawled: Number of pages scanned.
Documents crawled: Number of documents scanned.
Domain compliance: Percentage of compliance achieved.
Comparison to average: The score of the website as compared with the average score within the industry.
QA errors: The number of errors, broken down into category icons.
Changes since previous crawl: Percentage of changes made since the last scan.
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