Siteimprove is a combination SEO, Accessibility, Quality Assurance and Digital Certainty Index reporting tool for all UCANR.edu sites. By measuring these items, you can improve engagement, accessibility, and fix a number of items that affect the quality of your site.
Some of the items measured by Siteimprove include:
- Broken Links at Page level.
- Broken Links inside of PDF files
- Content Quality
- Content Freshness
- Security
- User Experience
- Misspellings
- Frequency of new content
- Missing Alt Attributes for Images
- Missing Title Attributes for iFrame / Videos
How to get a basic report on your site
You will need a Siteimprove account to learn about the issues with your site.
You can file a ticket at iwp@ucanr.edu and ask for a Siteimprove Account.
Once your Siteimprove account is approved, you can login using your UCANR SSO: https://siteimprove.ucop.edu/
At the top of the page you'll see: ANR - Integrated Web Platform. To the right of that you'll see a list of Groups you have access to. If you do not see your Group, you can add a new group by clicking on the drop down, and selecting Manage Groups. (patience is required as Siteimprove is slow).
You'll be allowed to Create a Group by clicking on the purple button.
Give your Group a name that is indicative of your Group / Site name. In this case we'll add a new Group called Mendocino County.
- Select Content and Analytics radio button.
- Then click Create Group. (patience as Siteimprove is slow)
Then you'll need to add Matches.
Click on Add Group Match.
Settings:
- Match Type: URL radio button chosen.
- Matches should be: Included radio button chosen.
- Copy the url of your site that does not include the main ucanr url: /county/mendocino-county
- Paste into Match Conditions, and Contains: /county/mendocino-county
- Click the purple button Save Changes.
Finally click the checkbox next to your Match Conditions, and then click on Save Changes.
You can now go to Back to Main Navigation and Dashboards to view your new group and it's scores.
Interpreting the Results
All scores are accessible in the left hand nav.
You can click on the following items:
Core Wins
Improve website health - Insites to help you improve the user experience of your website. Drive conversion - Insights to help you increase conversion and engagement.
Digital Certainty Index
Siteimprove's Digital Certainty Index (DCI) measures the quality and potential impact of your site's digital presence, including its accessibility and usability, its credibility and trustworthiness, and how well-poised it is to respond to SEO challenges. The final DCI score is calculated as an overall score of points awarded in three categories: Accessibility, Quality Assurance, and SEO.
Accessibility
Adhere to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2, which outlines how to make web content accessible for people with disabilities and user-friendly for everyone.
Quality Assurance
Measures Content Quality, Content Freshness, Security, User Experience.
Policy
Policy can help you to track special issues and monitor your site content. Select popular policies from the Policy library, or create your own custom policies tailored to your specific needs.
SEO Audit
Measures Technical, Content, User Experience and Mobile. Records Desktop Speed, Navigation Depth, Redirects, broken links, 301 redirects, Low content word count, pages not included in Sitemap, Mobile speed etc.