How does Sitebeam compare with Silktide?
Silktide is the successor to Sitebeam. We rethought everything, and wrote Silktide from scratch to be vastly more useful.
There are a lot of changes. This page will talk you through the key ones.
See issues on your pages
When an error appears on part of a page – say a spelling error – Silktide can show you that page, as it appeared at the time it was tested, and show you where the error appears.
Ignore and approve issues
Silktide allows you to ignore or approve specific issues. For example, you can ignore the alternative text for a given image, or ignore all spelling mistakes on specific pages.
Mobile testing
All versions of Silktide include mobile tests. Silktide Monitor includes comprehensive layout and accessibility tests for every page in mobile devices.
Track measures over time
Monitor reports break down changes to your website over time, including broken links, spelling, SEO, and more.
See results faster
Silktide is much faster at testing websites, even though it is now performing far more checks. PDFs now take seconds to export instead of minutes.
With Sitebeam, you had to wait for a report to fully run before you could see anything. Silktide starts to show you some results almost immediately, and updates them as they are discovered. This means you can see some information – like search engine ranking – in seconds, and other tests – like spelling – will display results progressively, as more pages are downloaded.
Retest individual pages
Silktide Monitor allows you to re-test individual pages at any time, without using up a report. Typically it takes 10 – 15 seconds to retest a single page.
Scheduled reports
Silktide Monitor was designed to test and improve websites continuously. By default Monitor will retest your websites automatically every 5 days, and email selected users about any changes.
New and improved tests
Every test has been rewritten, with many tests being renamed, expanded, merged or removed.
Users of Silktide Monitor gain support for Accessibility testing (WCAG 2.1 A, AA and AAA), custom Surveys, GDPR testing, and much more.
See more
- How does Silktide detect cookies?
- How does Silktide choose which pages to test?
- What browsers does Silktide support?
- How does scoring work?
- Why doesn't Silktide offer an accessibility plugin or overlay?
- What languages does Silktide support?
- What IP address and user agent does Silktide use?
- How does Silktide count pages?
- How does Silktide handle frames and iframes?
- How does Silktide see websites?
- How long does a website take to test?
- How does Silktide security work?