What your first check set up
Pasting your address filled in the basics for you. Each one can be changed in Settings:
| What | Set to | Change it in |
|---|---|---|
| The name | Taken from your address | Settings → Product |
| The address | What you pasted | Settings → Product |
| The pages | Your home page and the pages it links to | Settings → Pages |
| The market | People in the United States | Settings → Market |
| A test account | None, so checks see what a signed-out visitor sees | Settings → Sign-in |
Tell it what the product is
Settings → Product is what every check is told before it starts. The most important fields:
- Live URL. The address every run opens. It has to open for anyone on the internet.
- What is it. One or two sentences: what it does and the outcome it promises. Every check reads it before a run.
- Audience. Who the product is for. Settings → Testers shows the simulated people drawn to match it.
- Language. The language testers use on your site, and the language your report is written in.
- Documents. A price sheet, a plan or a deck as a PDF, read beside your pages. Finance checks its prices and Marketing its claims.
Then press Check setup. It opens a browser, visits every page, tries the sign-in if you have saved a test account, and tells you what would break a run. It costs nothing. Save product keeps your changes.
Choose which pages get tested
A check only tests pages it knows about, and they live in Settings → Pages. Your first check put your home page and the pages it links to there. To find more, press Scan for pages (Scan again once you have scanned): it opens your site, follows its own navigation and lists what it finds, and it is free. Once a test account is saved, the scan signs in and finds the pages behind your login too. On New run you can narrow a single run to some of them.
If a page is still missing, for example one only reached through a flow no scan would follow,
add it under Or list the pages yourself, one page per line: a name, the path and a label,
such as pricing | /pricing | Pricing. Four optional extras can go on the end of a
line:
| Add | What it does |
|---|---|
auth | The page is behind your login, so a run signs in first. |
why=… | What a visitor comes to this page to do. Every tester is told it, and it is the most useful thing you can add. |
files=… | Which part of your code owns the page, so a fix prompt can name a real file. |
expect=… | Something that only appears once the page has fully loaded, written as a CSS selector. |
Who you sell to
Settings → Market says where you sell and who buys. Your first check assumed people in the United States so that findings could carry a price. Change it if that is wrong. The market is sized from published statistics, and it decides who the simulated testers are drawn from.
Testing another address for one run
On New run, the Site to test field takes a different address, such as a staging copy, for a single run. The console tells you what that means: everything earlier runs learned stays with the project’s own site and is not used for this one. If the new address is the one you meant all along, the button beside that note makes it the project’s site.
More than one product
A project is one product under test, with its own runs, findings and verdicts. Open Projects at the top of the sidebar and press New project. Free includes 1 project, Pro 3, Team 10 and Agency 25. The sample app does not count toward them.