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It just makes sense to people. People don’t need to ask ‘What does this do, I don’t understand’. The information is just there.
– Joseph Vugteveen, Grand Valley State University
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The idea of managing this workload without Silktide is horrifying.
– Mark Hook, Christ Church, Oxford 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.
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Accessibility is explained clearly in Silktide and gives me a good understanding of what’s needed.
– Jack Yuille, University of Worcester
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In terms of moving from Siteimprove I don’t regret it, at all. It’s been hugely beneficial and easier.
– Joseph Vugteveen, Grand Valley State University

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.

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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Highlighting and addressing any WCAG accessibility issues allows us to push to be an accessibility leader in the industry.
– Joseph Vugteveen, Grand Valley State University
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Identifying accessibility issues was difficult before using Silktide. We were cobbling it together from a few different free tools.
– Jack Yuille, University of Worcester

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.
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

Keep an uncluttered workload
Limit which parts of Silktide users can work with. Assign technical issues to developers, and content editors won’t see them.
- Customized tasks depending on user role
- Built-in views available
- Switch between views for team monitoring

The end of screenshots?
Easily mark any part of your webpage for change by clicking, creating tasks, and notifying users.
- No more screenshots, tickets, and emails
- Dramatically increase web production speeds
- Instant task assignment, feedback, and discussion

Don’t be overwhelmed
Break a single website into as many sections as you want, without needing to retest the website.
- Simple or complex site breakdowns
- Rule-based (URL, language, scripts, CMS, and many more)
- Assign teams to work on parts of your website

Your workflow, your way
Build your own custom dashboards from almost any information reported by Silktide.
- Drag and drop widgets
- Custom components
- User and group based dashboards
- One or multiple websites

Speed testing
Speed tests now cover Web Vitals standards used by Google to rank user experience.
- Combines Lighthouse and Silktide
- See any speed issues on your page
- Simulated devices and locations

Test anything, any time
Report on any single webpage just by typing in its address.
- Results in under 30 seconds
- Test any page, not just yours
- All standard tests supported
- Works with HTML and PDF documents

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.

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.

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.
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.

WCAG is hard
Automatically test your website to WCAG 2.1 standards, including mobile.
- Save time and find more issues
- Test on mobile devices
- Meet your legal obligations
- Ongoing accessibility training

The end of bad content?
Protect your brand by fixing common quality issues.
- Spelling and grammar checking
- Find internal and external broken links
- Measure readability
- Check content accessibility

Rise to the top
Clear, prioritized actions to improve your marketing.
- Identify SEO failings
- Keyword analysis and rankings
- Advertising research
- Technical optimization

Keep your users happy
End user frustration with slow-loading, poorly optimized websites.
- Lighthouse speed checks
- Image optimization
- Mobile experience
- Uptime monitoring

Better mobile experiences
Don’t make it harder for most of your users to engage with you.
- Mobile accessibility
- Speed and SEO
- Broken layout testing
- Button and tap sizing

Keep up with legislation
Get privacy alerts and monitor GDPR compliance across your websites.
- Track privacy errors
- Prioritized action list
- Cookie monitoring
- Geographical footprint
Case studies
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UoW becomes the top-performing UK university website in the Silktide Index.
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Grand Valley State University switches to Silktide for a more engaging, educational, and cost-effective solution.
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Christ Church, Oxford University, transforms their understanding of accessibility with Silktide.