How To Use SiteImprove

The Siteimprove AEM integration provides insights* into an individual page's:

• Misspellings and broken links
• Readability levels
• Accessibility issues (A, AA, AAA conformance level)
• High-priority policies
• SEO errors, warnings and reviews
• Page visits and page views
• Feedback rating and comments

*Note: The Siteimprove CMS plugin only displays information to services that are included in your subscription.

The integration streamlines workflows and enables Authors to fix errors and optimize content directly in the editing environment. Once a page is published, any changes you make are re-checked instantly, which increases productivity, reduces the time your team spends on manual tasks and reduces time-to-market.

Authors can access the features of Siteimprove without leaving the AEM Author Environment.

There are two points of entry to choose from:

1. Icon

2. Small overlay box

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Small Overlay Box

Once you click one of the entry points you will be greeted by the login screen.

The majority of Siteimprove checks will only run on published content.

The CMS Plugin page details are divided into 3 sections via a drop-down: Page Content Issues, Page Analytics, and SEO.

The Page Content Issues section shows data relating to the following:

Quality Assurance

• Misspellings
  
• Broken links
• Readability levels

Accessibility

• Accessibility issues (A, AA, AAA conformance level)

• Page visits
• Page views
• Time spent on page
• Internal traffic (referring pages and next pages)
• Feedback rating and comments

The SEO section gives details on the following:

• SEO Technical issues


• SEO Content issues


• SEO User Experience issues


• SEO Search snippet preview


• SEO Keywords related to this page


• SEO Competing content

After making an corrections, edits or other changes, Authors will be able to re-check/re-crawl the page. To accurately check, the page needs to be republished.  When pages are re-checked, results will be returned immediately.

Possible reasons for why you cannot see Siteimprove's CMS Plugin

• You have ad blockers, pop up blockers, or extensions enabled in your browser that might interfere with the plugin.
• You do not have the rights to view the plugin. Contact your AEM administrator if you think this is the case.
• The browser version you are using does not support the Siteimprove Plugin.
• You have JavaScript disabled in your browser.

One aspect of performance optimization that SiteImprove Performance will assist you with, is making sure that the image content on your site is as optimized as possible. This will, in turn, lead to a faster load time on the pages, resulting in a better experience for your users. 

Here are two ways to optimize your images for better SiteImprove scoring:

Reduce Image Size:  Wherever possible, you should try and avoid using images that are larger than the needs of the user's screen size (viewport). Anything larger than that will results in unnecessary load time, as the larger image files take longer to load and display in the browser.

Use Next-Gen Formats:  By using newer image formats such as JPEG 2000, JPEG XR and WebP over older formats like JPEG or PNG, Authors can severely reduce the file size of each image. This will, in turn, lead to the page loading faster, consuming less cellular data and providing a better user experience.

For the Prepublish check, SiteImprove will only perform some of the checks. Otherwise, the majority of Siteimprove checks will only run on published content.