Web governance for higher education

The idea of managing this workload without Silktide is horrifying.

– Mark Hook, Christ Church, Oxford University
You guys were just flexible with everything and you’re still very generous of your time, helping us to make the best use of it.

– Joseph Vugteveen, Grand Valley State University

Protect your brand

What are your biggest website challenges?

Your website is your most important public-facing asset and gives the first impression of your organization.

Presenting your university in the best light is key to attracting and retaining students from all backgrounds and abilities.

With thousands of pages, continually updating content, a wide range of stakeholders, and accessibility challenges, you’ve got your work cut out. Silktide can help.

Website monitoring

Thousands of pages to manage

Nobody can be expected to manage tens of thousands of web pages alone. Keeping track of content that changes daily, accessibility challenges, and disparate stakeholders is an insurmountable task.

Unlimited testing capabilities

Silktide reports on your entire web structure, including subdomains and micro-sites. We help you identify and correct issues across website content, marketing, and privacy. You no longer need to be an expert in everything.

The mobile accessibility breakdowns were really useful. We just wouldn’t have picked those up otherwise.

– Jack Yuille, University of Worcester
Silktide monitors our website against the latest standards, WCAG 2.1, so we are confident of becoming more compliant against the legal requirements.

– Mark Hook, Christ Church, University of Oxford

Web accessibility

Accessibility requirements

Silktide automatically tests your website against all three levels of WCAG 2.1 accessibility legislation, including mobile device testing.

We’ll educate and guide your team toward better accessibility compliance by giving you a comprehensive website testing platform.

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Content optimization

Continually updating content

Your content team is regularly adding new pages to your site. We’ll give them the tools to create a top-performing website using best practices for SEO, search, speed, mobile, and page optimization.

Spelling, grammar, and broken link checking

Check for spelling errors in 50 languages. Make broken links a thing of the past. Gain the knowledge and understanding required to produce world-class content using Silktide’s clear reports.

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Silktide were great in discussing all aspects of accessibility, including the limitations of machine scans and how these should be mixed in with human testing.

– Jack Yuille, University of Worcester
Silktide is just so much easier to use and understand than anyone else’s platform. For me that was a big driver in switching. It was just so easy.

– Joseph Vugteveen, Grand Valley State University

Marketing

Marketing, SEO and advertising challenges

Content is only the first step. Your marketing team demand the very best performance from your website, including well-optimized, highly ranked pages.

Page speed optimization

Making sure images are optimized for size and your pages load quickly should be an important focus for your development and content teams.

Keyword research and backlinks

With Silktide, you’re able to report on keyword rankings, competitors advertising and backlink quality, as well as identify and solve a wide range of technical challenges.

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Our project management tools

Silktide is more than the sum of its parts. Our modules test user experience, marketing, accessibility, and more. But our platform is fundamentally designed to help your team work more efficiently together.

Keep track of everything

Assign issues to specific users and groups, and track their status.

Comment on specific issues

Add custom tags and statuses

Change monitoring with historical records

Workflow

Time and resource pressure

Managing and optimizing a multi-thousand page website is a huge, seemingly unmanageable task, and often more work that is reasonable for one person to understand. Often, too many users are responsible for web content, resulting in inconsistency in quality across your sites.

Silktide identifies inconsistencies and technical errors throughout your sites. You can streamline and align your content strategy using custom policies, and get tasks broken down into manageable chunks.

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Web migration

Migration and redesign

The migration of web content from one system to another is often an ongoing task. If you’re undergoing a website migration, your to-do list might look like an encyclopedia.

Website auditing

Silktide audits all of your websites and gives you a comprehensive list of pages, documents, links, contact details, and technology, making migration more manageable.

Sixteen years of technology

Silktide has been testing websites with our proprietary software since 2005. We don’t just analyze the code, we find errors that your visitors would.

By loading pages in real browsers, with JavaScript enabled, we replicate your users and experience your website as they would.

We’re confident that Silktide finds issues that other platforms simply can’t. We work with organizations around the world to help make the web a better place for everyone.

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League tables

Silktide Index

The Silktide Index is our accessibility benchmark, comparing websites across multiple sectors.

We launched it in February 2020. Our aim is to raise awareness of the importance of web accessibility.

Making your website accessible to as many people as possible makes sense for your organization.

Universities are included, so you can see how your site is doing.

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Modules and solutions

Modules are the individual components of Silktide. Each module tests and reports on a specific area. Fundamentally, each module contains the results of specific and related tests Silktide performs on your website.