How do I choose between a page scan and a site scan?
Scan a page when you want one page checked now: there’s no account, and the report arrives in about 20 seconds. Scan a site when you want a sample of up to 50 pages read and scored together, and followed over time. A site scan needs a free account, because it runs in the background.
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To check one page, use the home page
Type the page’s address into Your site URL and press Scan my site. You get one report for that page, with its own link and its history. Nothing to sign up for.
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To check a whole site, go to Scan your whole site
Use the Scan a whole site button in the home page’s Site scan card, or Scan a site in the header. Signed out, the page explains why a site scan needs an account and offers Create a free account and Sign in. It says it plainly: “Free. We are not charging for this.”
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Choose under What to scan
Signed in, the form asks What to scan. Whole site takes your domain, your sitemap or a list of pages, and gives you one site score built from every page it reads, each of which also gets its own full report.
Single page swaps the box for Page address and the button for Scan this page. It sends the address to the home page scanner, so it is the same page scan as everywhere else: “The page scan is free and needs no account.”
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Know what each one gives you
A page scan answers for one page, today. A site scan answers for the site: how widespread each problem is, which kinds of page score lowest, and, under Your sites, how the site moves from run to run. Only a site scan lets you pin pages and emails you when it finishes.
The why behind it
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