How it works

Web app accessibility, performance, security, SEO, and quality can generally be performed and measured in one of two ways:

1. Server-side: on a consistent, controlled environment.
2. Client-side: on real users actually loading and interacting with the page.

Performing audits on the server side isn’t necessarily reflective of how all users experience your site in reality. The condition of a site can vary dramatically based on a user’s device capabilities, network conditions, or people may be experiencing varying degrees of auditory, cognitive, physical, speech, and visual disabilities. It can also vary based on whether (or how) a user is interacting with the site. The only way to truly know how your site performs for your users is to actually measure its conditions as those users are loading and interacting with it.

AI-powered SiteLint Audits Platform is a next-generation SaaS-type platform that allows you to set up audits on your site and gather all reports from the audits in one place. It works by relying on a small bit of JavaScript code that runs on your website. This code is activated when visitors arrive on your site. It runs a series of audits against the page, and then it generates a report on how well the site did. All work in real-time (on the fly). Sitelint isn’t based on the Puppeteer or the like framework.

This approach means that we aren’t crawling your website, but all audits are being performed directly on your site. Read more about Active Scanning Mode.

Table of contents

1. Let’s visualize first how SiteLint works
2. Now let’s see how to set up and start using SiteLint
   1. Step 1 – Sign Up. An initial API token will be created for you.
   2. Step 2 – Put the code snippet on your site
   3. Step 3 – Get results and analyse them
3. SiteLint vs Lighthouse
4. Want to know more?