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How the audit works, and what we changed

What's new

Everything we have shipped

Dated the day it landed.

  • New

    Run an audit from the home page

    Type an address and watch the audit work, stage by stage. When it finishes, the findings are on the page and the full report is ready to download.

  • Improved

    Shop departments are opened in a real browser

    Many shops draw their product grids in the browser, so the HTML a server sends holds none of them. The audit now opens every department page in Chrome while it reads the site, and counts what a visitor sees.

  • Fixed

    The report prints the audit's own counts

    “15 of 115 page titles” now reaches the report exactly as the audit counted it. A screenshot that cannot be found no longer stops the report from being delivered.

  • New

    Quotes are checked against the page they came from

    A finding may only quote text that is on a page we read, and only cite a status a request actually returned. Code checks both before anything is written into the report.

  • Improved

    The report, rebuilt as one document

    A verdict on the front page, one page per problem with its evidence beside it, and a short plan that points back at the findings. Nothing is said twice.

  • New

    Every finding is checked while the audit runs

    The moment the auditor reports a problem, a second agent re-opens every address and tries to prove it wrong. Findings it cannot confirm never reach you.