Siteimprove

Siteimprove is a self-service application available to all UK site owners to give the insight they need to work towards improving the quality and accessibility of their sites. Siteimprove can also be used to optimize a website for search engine discovery and to capture basic website analytics to help prioritize improvement efforts.

The Siteimprove crawler runs every 5 days to store an up-to-date version of the site, along with any issues that are found.  These issues are sorted into categories such as Quality Assurance, Accessibility, and Search Engine Optimization. With the issues found and sorted, users can begin to optimize and improve their site.  And with the embedded analytics script on most of the sites, users are able to see page views and clicks on PDFs to help prioritize these improvement efforts. 

Siteimprove provides several types of reports useful for website maintenance, each with a numerical score that can track the progress of your site. All scores are on a 100 point scale.

Digital Certainty Index (DCI): Measures site quality by factoring in accessibility, quality assurance and search engine optimization scores. Learn more about the DCI.

• Accessibility: Measures how well pages and PDFs test against the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.0). The guidelines have three levels (A, AA and AAA). The University of California is committed to meeting accessibility level AA (all level A and AA criteria). WTS works to make the CMS templates accessible, while site managers are responsible for the accessibility of their content. Learn more about the accessibility score.
• Quality Assurance: Measures site credibility and trustworthiness, based on: broken links, misspelled words and readability issues, including an inventory of your pages, documents, media files, email addresses and other content. Site managers are responsible for maintaining the quality of their site's content. Learn more about the quality assurance score.
• Search Engine Optimization: Measures technical, content, user experience and mobile-related website issues affecting your ranking in search results. WTS maintains the mobile-related and most technical SEO requirements.  Site managers are responsible for making sure their site has user-friendly system names, page content and visuals. Learn more about the SEO score.

Siteimprove Help Center

Siteimprove FAQ and guides

In-app training

Log in to Siteimprove to use these step-by-step tutorials or see a full list of in-app tutorials

• Accessibility Overview (login required)
• Issues in Accessibility (login required)
• Navigating the Page Report - Accessibility (login required)
• How to navigate the DCI Score Dashboard (login required)