Introduction¶

This document provides instructions on how to do a quick scan and itemizes the data that the quick scan can provide.

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 through the Acquia Optimize Web Browser Extension and returns results for the following features and modules:

• Accessibility

• Data Privacy

• SEO

• Quality assurance Readability (LIX) .

• Note

  You will only see results for the features and modules above if they are enabled on your account.

Instructions¶

This section gives instructions on how to start a Quick Scan.

1. Click Quick Scan on the web browser extension toolbar.

   

2. Select the accessibility guideline you wish to use.

   

3. Click Start Quick Scan. The scan results appear in the web browser extension when the scan is complete.

   

Quick scan progress¶

Track the progress of the scan on the web browser extension. The progress steps that are shown for the quick scan are:

• HTML capture

• Sending to API

• Scanning.

Quick scan checks¶

A Quick scan includes the following checks:

• Accessibility: All checks of type Error in the selected accessibility guideline.

• Data privacy checks¶

• CREDIT_CARD_NUMBER

• FINANCIAL_ACCOUNT_NUMBER

• GENERIC_ID

• IBAN_CODE

• MEDICAL_RECORD_NUMBER

• PASSPORT

• SWIFT_CODE

• VEHICLE_IDENTIFICATION_NUMBER.

• SEO checks¶

• seo_missing_title

• seo_missing_h1

• seo_multiple_h1

• seo_missing_subheadlines

• seo_missing_alt

• seo_no_follow

• seo_no_index

• seo_missing_meta_keyword

• seo_missing_meta_description

• seo_too_short_meta_description

• seo_too_long_meta_description.

• Readability: See the readability score, 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 display 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:

• Single-page scan
• External page scan
• Web browser extension

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. For a Quick scan, 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.

How is the Quick scan different from the single-page scan?¶

The single-page scan uses the site URL as the base. We provide the URL to the crawler. The single-page scan includes, among other things, broken link analysis and an update of the page data inside the application if the page has been crawled before. This causes the Single Page scan to often take over an hour to complete.

The quick scan uses the HTML code that is captured by the web browser extension, and forwards that data to the API to do the scan.

Where is the Quick scan data stored?¶

The data from the quick scan is not synchronized with the database. The scan results are not saved.