Locating Links With Specific Text in the URL
How to use Siteimprove to find a link that contains specific text on your site.
Siteimprove Quality Assurance
Using Siteimprove as a tool, you can easily locate pages that include specific text within a link. In our example below we are searching for .cfm, a reference to our old content management system.
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inventory
- Locate Inventory in the left-hand navigation.
- Click the (+) plus sign to expand.
- Select Links, which is the third option down.
searching for specific links
- In the Search: URL bar on the far right of the page enter: .cfm
- Click the magnifying glass or enter on your keyboard to prompt the search.
- All links within your site that include .cfm will display in your results.
- Results can be exported to Microsoft Excel using the export/arrow button.
Identifying LINKS
- Hover with your mouse over one of the search result rows.
- You will see a plus sign appear in the last column (the Pages column).
- Click the plus sign to expand. Click the minus sign to compress.
- This will display the pages that use the .cfm link.
- If you hover with your mouse over these rows you will have the option to go to that specific page's report.
- If the link is broken, it will be identified.
- If the link has yet to be broken, you will need to identify it.
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Next Steps
- Once you have identified your .cfm links and the pages they live on, please log into Drupal.
- Locate the page the .cfm link is on and update the link.
- Links should be updated to the new Drupal node IDs.
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Example
- The Page Report in Siteimprove (image below) shows Information on how to read the audit as a link.
- Hovering over that link shows it is linking to www2.kent.edu/gps which is not yet broken.
- Log into Drupal and locate the page that houses the link.
- Remove: www2.kent.edu/gps
- Update: /node/73186
- This tells Drupal to link to the www.kent.edu/gps page.
- Should this page name or URL ever change, the link will not break, as it is linked to the node ID.
- The Page Report in Siteimprove (image below) shows Information on how to read the audit as a link.
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