Description
UX Signal scores a page against 56 weighted UX heuristics at desktop, tablet and phone widths, and backs every scored finding with a screenshot or a measurement from the page.
This plugin brings that into WordPress:
- Audit the whole site. WordPress already knows your pages, so you choose which ones to include instead of leaving it to a crawler.
- Audit one page. “UX audit” appears under every published page and post, and in the admin bar while you view one.
- See the result where you work. The score, the five issues costing it the most with their fixes, and a page-by-page table. The full report, with its evidence, is one click away.
- A dashboard widget with your latest score.
A UX Signal account on the Pro or Team plan is required. Audits started here count against that plan exactly as audits started on uxsignal.io do.
External services
This plugin connects to UX Signal (https://uxsignal.io), the service that performs the audits. It cannot work without it.
- What is sent: your API key, and the addresses of the pages you choose to audit. Nothing is sent until you connect a key, and after that only when you start an audit or open the plugin’s screen (to check on a running audit and read your plan’s allowance).
- What UX Signal does with it: it loads those public pages in a browser, the same way a visitor would, and scores them. It does not receive your WordPress users, content database or passwords.
- No tracking: the plugin sends no usage data and loads nothing from other servers.
Terms of use: https://uxsignal.io/legal/terms
Privacy policy: https://uxsignal.io/legal/privacy
Screenshots
Installation
- Install and activate the plugin.
- In your UX Signal account, open Settings, then API keys (https://uxsignal.io/api-keys), and make a key.
- In WordPress, open UX Signal in the admin menu, paste the key and click Connect.
- Tick the pages to include and click Start site audit.
FAQ
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How long does an audit take?
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Two to three minutes for one page. A site audit takes longer, depending on how many pages you include. You can leave the screen; the result is there when you return.
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Can it audit a site on my computer or behind a password?
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Not yet. UX Signal loads your pages over the internet, so the site has to be publicly reachable. The plugin tells you when it is not.
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Where is my API key stored?
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In this site’s options table. It is sent only to uxsignal.io. Disconnecting, or deleting the plugin, removes it.
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Does it slow my site down?
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No. It adds nothing to your public pages. It only does work on its own admin screen.
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Contributors & Developers
“UX Signal” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
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Changelog
0.1.1
- Every name the plugin defines now carries the
uxsignalprefix. A site that connected with 0.1.0 pastes its key once more after updating.
0.1.0
- First release: connect an account, audit the site or a single page, see the score and top fixes in the admin.