Quality Assurance

What is Quality Assurance?

Quality assurance (QA) is a measure of the overall health of your website content. Siteimprove’s Quality Assurance module identifies old and irrelevant content, broken links, and outdated branding or wording. It also provides a detailed inventory of the pages, files, and other assets that are included in your site.

Quality Assurance Dashboard

Note: The Quality Assurance Dashboard replaced the Editor dashboard (QA) as the default QA dashboard in February 2025.

The Quality Assurance Dashboard displays reports for:

• Broken links
• Misspellings and Words to review
• Broken links in PDFs
• Readability
• Site Inventory

For any website content editor, one of the most important things is to make sure there are no errors on your site. This means that you need to make sure there are no issues with any of the categories above, and if there are, fix them as soon as possible.

This dashboard is a great way to see what needs immediate attention on your site at a glance and be able to troubleshoot and fix those issues quickly.

The dashboard is organized into 3 different sections:

General issues

Readability

Site inventory

Setting the Quality Assurance Dashboard as your default dashboard

By default, when you log into Siteimprove this is the dashboard that should load on your account. However, if you change it at any point you may need to select it again when working on quality assurance issues. If you plan to spend the most time using Siteimprove to fix issues on your site, such as broken links and misspellings, it’s recommended that this be set as your default dashboard.

Here’s how you do it:

1. Log into Siteimprove
2. If the Quality Assurance Dashboard is not already set as your default dashboard, select it from the dropdown at the top of the screen.
3. Once selected, this dashboard should display by default every time you log in or until you choose a different dashboard.

More information on setting dashboards can be found on the Getting Started page.

How to view detailed reports

You can access reports for each of the following categories throughout Siteimprove’s QA module. However, there are two common ways to view a detailed report. The first is to click the button within the category located at the top of your dashboard:

The other common method is to click on the corresponding category through the navigation panel on the left and select the link to the report you’re looking for. For example:

How do I know when all my QA issues are fixed?

Once you have fixed all the issues within a category, you will see a green smiling face along with a message underneath that says you have 0 issues to resolve. However, further down in the dashboard, you may see that some issues that you fixed are still showing up. For these to clear, so long as they have been fixed, Siteimprove will need to crawl your site again. Site crawls are initiated about every 5 days and can take up to a few hours to complete.