This article gives instructions on how to set up and configure a domain scan.
The user agent details are:
This section gives instructions on how to configure a recurring domain scan.
Click Admin Settings (gear icon) on the toolbar at the top of the Domain Overview page.
The Domain Settings page opens.
Click Action on the same row as a domain.
The Action menu expands.
For more information, see the user guide article:
This section gives instructions on how to fill out the Domain Details section.
URL: Enter the URL for the domain.
The scan also includes all pages that are linked to the URL.
Some CMS providers have implemented scan rate limiting on their users.
For more information, see:
CMS rate limiting on bots and crawlers (FAQ)
If the CMS is not on the list, contact the support team to see if it is possible for our team to add it.
CMS URL: Click in the text field and type in the base URL for the CMS page. This field is required.
Language: Click the drop-down arrow and select the language for the domain scan. Select the primary language for the domain.
Words on a page that are written in another language are usually tagged as misspelled words. For instructions on how to repair the HTML code for this Accessibility error, see the HTML School site (external link).
For advanced help files, see:
This section gives instructions on how to fill out the Scan section.
Crawl Automatically: Toggle the switch to ON to set up a schedule for recurring scans. Toggle the switch to OFF to scan manually when needed.
This is an add-on feature. If this option is not available and you wish to change your scan frequency, contact your sales representative to upgrade the account. The default scan frequency is weekly.
Connections per minute: Click the drop-down arrow and select Connections per minute. The choices are:
Max scanned pages: Enter the maximum number of pages to do a scan on, as specified on your Acquia contract.
This section gives instructions on how to fill out the Crawl (scan) Options section.
Toggle the switches ON to activate the different scan options.
Spelling ignore capitalized words: Toggle the switch ON to ignore words that begin with a capital letter.
Words that the user includes in the Optimize dictionary are case-sensitive. To instruct the scan to ignore words that are written in all caps, and bypass the need to, for example, add the word to the dictionary, toggle this switch to ON.
Case sensitive URLs: Toggle the switch ON to include case-sensitive URLs in the scan.
This is set to the optimal position by default.
Example OFF: http://monsido.com/Foo/Bar is seen as the same link as:
http://monsido.com/foo/bar.
Example ON: The same links above will register as two different links.
In the OFF position, the scan sees all URLs as lowercase - no matter how they are written on the target website. Turn OFF only in rare cases where the target website does not recognize caps and reads all links in lowercase, which results in duplicates in the flagged scan issues. This is an advanced configuration that should normally be left to the default setting.
A better solution is to disable the case-sensitive feature and use only regex.
Render pages and execute JS while crawling: Toggle the switch ON to render pages and execute JavaScript during the scan.
When this option is turned ON, the website renders pages and executes JavaScript during the scan. This allows the scan to take into account any changes caused by Javascript during a website scan.
If the Accessibility feature is enabled, changes caused by JavaScript are automatically accounted for by default.
Ignore canonical URLs: Toggle the switch ON to instruct the scan to ignore canonical URLs.
More info: A canonical URL is the URL of the page that Google determines is most representative, taken from a set of duplicate pages on your website.
Use language attribute: Turn the switch OFF or ON. When it is ON, the scan does not try to auto-detect the page language. This means that the spell check is only done for the language specified in the lang attribute.
The Use Lang Attribute feature allows the scanner to use the correct spell check for HTML pages that have multiple languages.
The primary language of the HTML page must be correctly defined as a lang attribute on the <html>
tag. Additionally, each subsection of the page that is in any other language must be wrapped in a tag with a proper lang attribute value.
See below for an example:
<html lang=en">
<head>
<title>Hello World in other languages</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Hello World in other languages</h1>
<p>
Spanish: <span lang="es">Hola Mundo</span><br>
Danish: <span lang="da">Hej verden</span><br>
French: <span lang="fr">Bonjour le monde</span>
</p>
</body>
</html>
Remember: When enabled, the scan does not auto-detect the page language. For example, spell checks are always for the language specified in the lang attribute.
Some websites - including CP-built sites - have URLs that use a mix of lowercase and uppercase letters, for example https://www.example.com/TestPage
While the crawler saves the URL as all lowercase in our database, our Statistics module provider Matomo does not follow that practice and saves it as it is written by the website. This results in a scenario where the scan cannot map page statistics for the page https://www.example.com/TestPage
to the page in our database because it was saved as https://www.example.com/testpage
.
This option forces Matomo to put all URLs in lowercase so that they match the entries in our database.
This section gives instructions on how to fill out the Advanced Domain Options section.
For more information, see the user guide article:
Path Constraints and Link Exclusions
+ Add: Click + to add a new Constraint pattern. An empty row is added to the list.
The window only shows the first five items. With more than five list items, a paginate function begins to sort consecutive list items.
The window only shows the first five items. With more than five list items, a paginate function begins to sort consecutive list items.
For more information, see the user guide articles:
This section gives instructions on how to fill out the Login Type section.
Click the drop-down arrow and select a login type. The choices are:
This section gives instructions on how to fill out the Features section.
Accessibility: Click the drop-down arrow and select the accessibility level that is desired or required for the website.
When you change the accessibility level, the existing Accessibility Score scan information is erased and the new standard starts over from the beginning with the next scan. All of the history is lost. It is advised to activate a new level only when you are ready to make the updates needed, or if it becomes a legal requirement for your location/organization.
If you change the scan to Exclude checks that require manual review, you might not see other potential accessibility violations on your website.
Level AA of WCAG 2.1 is the legal requirement to be considered accessible. WCAG 2.2 is newly released and will soon be the standard, taking over from WCAG 2.1.
Source code excludes: Click the drop-down arrow and select domains to exclude from the scan.
For more information, see the user guide articles:
The Flesch–Kincaid readability test for English text measures word length, number of syllables per word, and sentence length. The formula for the Flesch readability score (FRES) test is as follows:
206.835 - 1.015 (total words/total sentences) - 84.6 (total syllables/total words)
The LIX method is used for foreign languages and the readability formula is as follows:
LIX = A/B + (C x 100)/A, where
A = Number of words
B = Number of periods (defined by period, colon, or capital first letter)
C = Number of long words (More than 6 letters)
For more information, see the user guide article:
Statistics: Toggle ON to turn on this feature and begin to track website visitor statistics.
For more information, see the user guide article:
PageCorrect: Toggle ON to turn on this add-on. Click the link to navigate to the PageCorrect Settings page.
PageCorrect allows users to identify and correct website errors such as quality assurance errors and accessibility issues.
For more information, see the user guide article:
Data Privacy: Toggle the switch OFF or ON. Click the link to navigate to the Domain Data Privacy Settings page.
The Data Privacy module identifies potential data privacy issues. It can serve as a form of documentation that allows website owners to show their efforts to be compliant with local regulations.
For more information, see the user guide article:
Scan documents: Toggle the switch ON to include documents in the scan.
The scan is a powerful tool that does a scan on all pages of a website. With Scan documents selected, we also do a scan of documents on the website. The document scan identifies all of the same types of issues as a domain scan.
PageAssist: Toggle the switch ON to activate. Click the link to navigate to the PageAssist Settings page.
PageAssist allows website owners to make custom visual adjustments to suit their unique requirements.
For more information, see the user guide article:
Consent Manager: Toggle the switch ON to activate.
The Consent Manager module includes everything that you need to classify and set up user cookie acceptance and website cookie banners. This module also includes automatic cookie scan detection and cookie maintenance.
For more information, see the user guide article:
Set up groups to assign specific users to a subset of pages on one or more domains that the scan has been done on. Created groups appear under the domain name.
For more information, see the user guide articles:
The Users section shows a list of users with access to the Acquia Optimize interface. This section gives instructions on how to add permissions to users in the Users section.
The list is presented in table format.
The table column headers are:
Admin: Tick the box to give the user admin permissions. Admins can add, edit, and delete.
For more information, see the user guide article:
Click Save. The settings pane closes and the Domains page is visible.
It is now possible to begin an on-demand scan to see the configuration results. Click Action on the same row as a domain and select Start on-demand scan.
Click Admin Settings (gear icon), on the main menu bar.
The Domain Settings page opens.
On the same row as a domain, click Action.
The Action menu expands.
For more information, see the articles:
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