Adding a Site
Introduction
When adding a new Site to your AAArdvark Workspace, you’ll need to configure a few settings to make sure your site is getting the most of out the tools and platform.
From your dashboard, click the Add a New Site button at the top of the page.
Getting Started
From your dashboard, click the Add a New Site button at the top of the page. You’ll be prompted to add the Site Name, as well as the Base URL. You’ll need to fill out the following information:
- Site Name: The friendly name of the site you are scanning that will show up in dashboards, reports, and search results. If you’re setting up multiple website environments for a site, you might add it as a suffix here. For example: AAArdvark (Development) and AAArdvark (Production).
- Base URL: The URL to your site. All page paths that you add will be prefixed by this URL before scanning. The URL must be working (loading without an error) before adding a site.
- Site Settings: You can choose between the recommended settings, or customize the scan settings.
After entering the Base URL, you must click the Validate URL button to validate the URL before continuing.
Keep in mind that you can always go back and edit your Site Settings as necessary.
Recommended Settings
When adding a site, you can use the Recommended Settings provided by AAArdvark to quickly get started. The default settings are as follows:
- Standard: WCAG 2.1 AA
- Display Level: Warnings and Errors
- Scan Frequency: Weekly on Sunday
- Authentication: None
Customize Site Settings
Should you wish to further customize your site settings, you can do so by selecting the Customize Site Settings option. You’ll need to fill out the following information:
- Standard: The WCAG compliance level that will be used when scanning your site for issues. We recommend WCAG2.1 Level AA for most sites.
- Display Level: Whether to display Notices as well in the Issue list.
- Scan Frequency: Whether to schedule an automated scan of this site daily, weekly, or never. If you are only starting scans manually or with a third-party integration, you can set this to “Never (Manual Only)”.
- Day of the Week: The day of the week for the automated scan can be chosen if “Scan weekly” is selected from the Scan Frequency dropdown.
Authentication
AAArdvark allows users to log into a site prior to scanning. This lets you scan pages as a logged-in user that would otherwise not be available to the public.
The credentials can be used for some or all pages on the site, an option that is individually configured on each page set up to be scanned.
If you need to set up authentication, please view this guide.
White Listing
You also have the option to whitelist requests coming from AAArdvark if your security tools are blocking bot traffic. If you’re running into Access Denied errors on your site and pages, you can collect the Name and Value pair information to set up custom header rules.
Learn how to fix Access Denied errors by whitelisting AAArdvark requests.
Teams
If users were invited to the workspace and have been added to a team, the site can be assigned to a team.
