Announcing collective.siteimprove

As I reported back in May, at our last Jazkarta sprint Witek and Alec began work on a Plone add-on, collective.siteimprove, that provides integration with the Siteimprove content quality checking service. I’m pleased to announce that the add-on has now been thoroughly vetted by the folks at Siteimprove and the resulting version is available from Pypi!

What Is Siteimprove

Siteimprove is a respected service for maintaining and improving web content quality. Customers who sign up for the service get automated scans of their websites which check for content quality, accessibility compliance, SEO, data privacy, and performance. Site rollups and per page reports are available via email and from a customizable dashboard at siteimprove.com.

Siteimprove also provides an API which allows for the development of CMS plugins – integrations of the Siteimprove service within content management systems. This allows content editors to get immediate feedback on pages that they publish. This is great because it lets editors see problems while they are in the process of editing a page, instead of getting a report after the fact and needing to click through links to fix things.

Why Siteimprove for Plone

Plone, the premier Python-based open source content management system, is an enterprise scale CMS that is widely used by large organizations with large websites. These are just the types of organizations that can benefit from a tool like Siteimprove, which has a reputation for being an excellent service for maintaining and improving website content.

The Jazkarta team was delighted to be able to contribute to the Plone community by creating an add-on that integrates Siteimprove’s CMS plugin features into the Plone editing process. Now anyone with a Plone website can easily integrate with Siteimprove simply by installing an add-on – all the integration work has been done.

collective.siteimprove

After collective.siteimprove is installed on a Plone site, there will be a new control panel where Siteimprove customers can request and save a token that registers the domain with siteimprove.com. After that, authorized users will see an overlaid Siteimprove button on each page that shows the number of issues found.

When clicked, the overlay expands to show a summary report of page errors and an overall score, as shown in the image at the top of this post. After an edit, users can click a button on the overlay to request that Siteimprove recheck the page. They can also follow a link to the full page report at siteimprove.com.

Plone+Siteimprove FTW

Now anyone who has a Plone website can easily integrate with the Siteimprove service and take advantage of all of Siteimprove’s enterprise-scale features while they are working on their content!