Introduction¶
With Quick Scan, Acquia Optimize performs a light scan of your web page and provides near-instant feedback. This feature is ideal for checking compliance while you prepare a web page for publication or if you simply need a quick analysis of a page that is already published.
Quick Scan is available in the Acquia Optimize Browser Extension if the feature has been enabled on your account.
Instructions¶
This section gives instructions on how to start a Quick Scan.
Click Quick Scan on the web browser extension toolbar.
Select the accessibility guideline you wish to use.
Click Start Quick Scan. The scan results appear in the web browser extension when the scan is complete.
Quick-Scan checks¶
A Quick Scan includes the following checks:
- Accessibility: All checks of type Error in the selected accessibility guideline.
- SEO: A total of 13 checks.
- Missing title
- Missing H1
- Multiple H1
- Too long URL
- Missing meta description
- Too long meta description
- Too short meta description
- Too many internal links
- Images missing alt
- Page with "no index"
- Links with "no no follow"
- Missing meta keywords
- Missing sub headings
- Data Privacy: A total of 8 checks that target highly sensitive information.
- Credit card number
- Passport number
- Financial account number (for example, a bank account number, or a retirement account number)
- IBAN code
- SWIFT code
- Medical record number
- Vehicle Identification Number (VIN)
- Generic ID (alphanumeric and special character strings that may be personally identifying but do not belong to a well-defined category, such as user IDs or medical record numbers).
- Readability: A readability score is provided based on the LIX method.
Troubleshooting¶
If we detect that the page you are trying to scan is larger than 20 MB, the scan will stop and you will see the message “The page is too big for Quick Scan”.
If you wish to scan larger pages, please use the Single-Page Scan.
For more information, see the user guide article:
Single-page scan
Additional resources¶
For more information, see the user guide articles:
FAQ¶
How does a Quick Scan work?¶
A Quick Scan is different from a regular domain scan because it does not rely on a crawl of the web page. For regular scans, the Acquia Optimize crawler needs to access your web page, crawl it in order to get the content, and then send it for analysis. In the case of Quick Scans, we do not crawl the web page. Instead, we use the HTML of the page that is already downloaded on your browser and send that information for analysis.
How fast is a Quick Scan?¶
Because we skip the crawl step of a scan, we can provide feedback significantly faster. Most pages are likely to complete scanning within a few minutes. There may be cases where the scan can take longer, often due to one or more of the following factors:
- The web page is very large: It takes more time for us to process and analyze large pages. If we detect that the page you are trying to scan is larger than 20 MB, the scan will stop and you will see the message “The page is too big for Quick Scan”. If you wish to scan larger pages, please use the Single-Page Scan.
For more information, see the user guide article:
Single-page scan - The system is busy processing scans: If many customers trigger scans at the same time, they land in our queue to avoid overload to the system. The scan starts when capacity is available on the servers.
What are the limitations of a Quick Scan?¶
In order to make scans run as fast as possible, the Quick Scan is not as comprehensive as a regular scan. Here are the main limitations:
- Since we do not crawl the web page, we are unable to check if links on the page are working and therefore do not give a report for broken links and images. If you wish to get a broken links report for a single page, please use the Single-Page Scan feature instead.
For instructions, see the user guide article:
Single-page scans - Not all checks make sense in the scope of a single page scan. Some checks that are run in regular domain scans are excluded from the Quick Scan. Please see the section "Which checks does a Quick Scan include?" above for detailed information.
- Quick Scan results are not synchronized to your regular Acquia Optimize scan results. The results of a Quick Scan will not show any longer after you have navigated away from the current page or refresh your browser. If you wish to run a scan of a single page and ensure that results are synced to your existing scan data in Acquia Optimize, use the Single-Page Scan feature instead.
For instructions, see the user guide article:
Single-page scans - If we detect that the page you are trying to scan is larger than 20 MB, the scan will stop and you will see the message “The page is too big for Quick Scan”.
For instructions, see the user guide article:
Single-page scans
Where can I use Quick Scan?¶
You can scan any page that you are able to view in your browser, including draft, preview, and staging pages.
Can I do a scan on pages on domains that are not in my Acquia Optimize account?¶
Yes, if you are viewing a web page that is not on your Acquia Optimize account, you can still start a Quick Scan of it through the web browser extension.