What you didn’t realise about SiteBeam

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When we asked SiteBeam customers what they thought about us at the end of last year, we noticed that many people weren’t aware of certain features or functionality.

We can hardly blame you, since we’ve been improving SiteBeam like crazy this year, and the tool is now more comprehensive than ever. But we thought you’d want to know about these things in particular:

SiteBeam does work on the iPhone and iPad

Several of you mentioned an iPhone or iPad app but in fact SiteBeam already works on both these devices. You should be able to use the tool in exactly the same way as you do normally.

Place names have recently been added to the dictionary

In the last upgrade we added 400,000 new words, including common surnames, company and place names. Obviously this job will never be complete so we plan to continue adding to our dictionary to keep improving SiteBeam’s Spelling test.

You can save which tests you want to run and show in reports

If you know you’ll never want to run a particular test on any of your websites, you can choose to disable it from your account, so that any future reports do not include it. To do this, go to the Account tab and choose Tests. In here you can disable or re-enable tests one by one.

Tests for all websites

If you want to run different tests for different websites, you can do the same thing but at the Site settings level, not at the Account level. Go into a report for a particular website, click the Site settings button and then choose Enabled tests.

The Help tells you exactly why each test is important & how it’s measured

We know that few people like to read Help sections, but for those of you looking for more detail on how each test works and why it is important for you or your clients, you really should look in there! The Help tab within the SiteBeam tool tells you all this and more.

SiteBeam help

SiteBeam help: Example resultsWe do offer custom URLs

We know we don’t publicise this very well at the moment, but you can choose to use your own URL for your SiteBeam account. Just drop us a line: support@silktide.com and we’ll sort it out for you.