September 12th 2017

Exclude specific webpages from specific tests

Most of our tests now let you exclude specific web addresses. For example, you could now exclude all pages inside example.com/demo from your spelling test, without affecting other tests.

How to exclude pages from a given test

  • Visit the test you want to exclude pages from
  • Click Settings > Test settings
  • In the Excluded page URLs box, enter the fully qualified URLs that you want to exclude, one on each line, e.g.
  • Note that these URLs must be full URLs, i.e. you can't just write example.com or /blog. Any web addresses inside these URLs are also excluded, so in the above example the pageĀ http://example.com/blog/article would also be excluded by http://example.com/blog.
  • Re-run the report for your settings to take effect.
If you want to exclude pages from all tests, you should instead go to Settings > Site settings and add your web addresses to the Denied URLs box instead.

Supported tests

This is now supported by the following tests:
  • Spelling
  • Grammar
  • Broken links
  • Missing files
  • Contact details
  • Prohibited content
  • Questionnaire
  • Desktop and Mobile speed
  • Reading age
  • SEO fundamentals
  • WCAG 2.0
  • Section 508
  • JavaScript errors

What's next?

We're currently hard at work on a large update to the Silktide interface, so there will be less small updates for a while. As always, you can follow our plans on our public roadmap.

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