Optimize is Now a Cloudflare Verified Bot¶

The Optimize web crawler has been officially added to the Cloudflare list of Verified Bots.

As a verified bot, our crawler can now scan Cloudflare-hosted websites without the need to adhere to the restrictions and rate limits that typically apply to non-verified bots. This results in smoother, more reliable scans with fewer issues related to blocked or throttled traffic.

🔹 No action is required by Cloudflare customers. This improvement is automatically applied.

Reports

✔ Heatmaps Summary with Detailed Clicks: 

Pagination is added to improve performance and resolve slow load times for reports with large data sets.

Platform & Integrations

✔ Added BayWSF CMS deeplink integration.

Reports

✔ Broken Links Summary: Corrected a column header that was previously mislabeled.

Reports

✔ Compliance Trends (Mobile View): Fixed incorrect wording for improved clarity on mobile devices.

Reports

✔ Compliance Trends & Domains Overview: Resolved a sorting issue in the Last scanned column.

History Center

✔ Fixed a bug where the Checks passed/failed data series was missing from Accessibility charts.

PageAssist

✔ Two previously untranslated interface strings are now localized across all supported languages.

New Report: Compliance Trends¶

Issue: 

It was difficult to identify trends and optimize compliance strategies on multiple domains.

Solution:

Acquia now provides a centralized way to analyze and compare data on multiple domains. The new Compliance Trends report enables users to generate comparative reports with a few clicks. This report provides a side-by-side view of compliance scores across all domains in an account. It also compares the most recent scores with those from the last scan conducted within the past 30–60 days.

Users can now track compliance trends over time to make more informed, data-driven decisions.

How to access: Navigate to the Report Center and scroll to the Consolidated Reports section.

Optimize Drupal Module¶

Acquia introduces the official Optimize Drupal Module, which is available for all Optimize accounts.

Key features:

• It can be installed from within Drupal

• It appears on the edit screen in Drupal, users can run a quick scan before they publish their pages.

• It provides results for Accessibility, SEO, Data Privacy, and Readability.

This integration streamlines page optimization for Drupal users and ensures that key compliance and quality checks are performed before the content goes live.

Policies¶

✔ AI-Assisted Policies: Increased font size on the conversation screen from 12px to 14px for better readability.
✔ AI-Assisted Policies: Added an option for users to reset a conversation with the AI bot.

Quality Assurance¶

✔ Added sorting options for the "Misspellings" and "Potential Misspellings" columns in the Pages with Misspellings view.
✔ Added broken link response codes to the "Broken Links Per Page" CSV export file.

Scans¶

✔ Resolved an issue where scans in "Retry" status would attempt to re-scan indefinitely, blocking the queue. Now, if a scan fails 20 times, the domain is set to inactive, and an email notification is sent to account users.

AI-Assisted Policies¶

The Policy Assistant is a new AI-powered feature within Acquia Optimize Global Policies that makes creating custom policies effortless. With a conversational interface, users can interact with the AI Assistant to generate policies tailored to their specific needs.

Once a policy is created, users simply select the domain(s) to apply it to during scans.

Availability: AI-Assisted Policies is available exclusively to customers with the Policies module enabled.

New Report: Compliance Trends¶

Managing multiple domains without a centralized way to analyze and compare data can make it difficult to spot trends and optimize compliance strategies.

The new Compliance Trends report provides a side-by-side comparison of compliance scores across all domains within an account. It highlights trends by comparing the most recent scores with those from the last domain scan within the past 30–60 days.

For the first time, users can easily track compliance trends over time and make data-driven decisions.

How to Access: Navigate to the Report Center and scroll down to the Consolidated Reports section.

Performance Module: Lighthouse Upgraded from Version 10 to 12.2¶

The Optimize Performance module runs audits using Google Lighthouse, which has now been upgraded from version 10 to 12.2.

Key Notes:

• The Performance audits remain unchanged, ensuring consistency in Core Web Vital metrics and their weighting in the overall score.
• No major changes have been introduced between versions 10 and 12.2.
• This upgrade improves the quality and accuracy of Lighthouse scans.

Policies

Added an “Add Policy with AI” button to the Policy List and Global Policy Dashboard views, directing users to the Policy Assistant.

Domains Overview

Updated the status message for domain groups during scans from “No data available” to “Scan in progress” for better clarity.

Report Center

Simplified report names by removing the word "report" from all list entries, improving readability.

Browser Extension enhancements

Improved icon states in browser toolbar

We introduced a disabled state for the Browser Extension icon in the browser toolbar, that makes it easier for users to identify whether the extension is enabled or disabled on a webpage.

• Enabled: The icon appears in light blue.

• Disabled: The icon appears in grey.

This update helps prevent confusion when users forget that they previously disabled the Extension on a specific page and wonder why it does not open the next time they visit.

Browser Extension

Quick Scan progress bar

We replaced the static spinner on the Quick Scan screen with a progress bar. This enhancement provides users with clear visibility into the scan’s progress, and shows which stage it is in and how far along it has progressed.

Removal of legacy score calculation

The legacy compliance score calculation option has been fully removed from the Optimize UI. This feature previously allowed users to use an older method of calculating compliance scores in Acquia Optimize.

As part of this change, we have also removed the Account Settings menu in Admin Settings, where users previously enabled or disabled legacy score calculations.

Accessibility

• Resolved an issue where Mobile Accessibility guidelines were missing from the Features dropdown in Edit Domain, despite being enabled for the account.

Quality Assurance

• Fixed an issue where bulk actions in Misspellings were not working.

Statistics

• Resolved an issue where the Actions tab in Events displayed no data when the UI language was set to a language other than English.

Scans

• Fixed time out issues when the scan encounters pages that use Office365 login.

Browser extension

• Fixed an issue where double scrollbars appeared in the Content section.
• Resolved a scenario where the Extension displayed "No issues found" in modules even when issues were present.
• Added a toast message to confirm successful action when users click “Clear Extension Cache”.
• Resolved an issue on the View Options screen where the "Screen Resolution" section appeared twice.

New articles in the Accessibility Guide¶

• Heading is descriptive
• iframe elements with identical accessible names have equivalent purpose
• Each label describes its associated input element

These new articles provide guidance on best practices for resolving accessibility issues.