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User guide
One page for every view in PixyScan, in the same order as the app鈥檚 sidebar. Each page says what the view is for, how to use it step by step, and what every number means. New here? Read the four Set up pages in order. Otherwise, jump to the view you need. The last two pages connect PixyScan to your build pipeline and your AI assistant.
35 pages 路 about 142 minutes end to end
01Set up
Read these four pages in order. They take you from a new account to your first finished scan.
- Sign up3 minSign up with your email, a six-digit code and a password, or in one click with Google.
- Create a workspace3 minSign-up creates your first workspace for you. Learn what it holds and how to add another.
- Add a site5 minGive PixyScan a name and a URL, and choose crawl settings if your site needs them.
- Run a scan4 minStart a scan with Scan now, and learn what happens while it runs and when it finishes.
02Your workspace
These views cover everything above a single site: all your sites, your team, your report branding and your subscription.
- Workspace overview3 minSee every site in one place, with its score, its last scan and how its score has moved.
- Report branding3 minAdd your logo, colours and a cover note to the reports you download. Included from Pro up.
- Workspace alerts2 minRead the scan events from every site in one list, grouped by scan.
- Workspace settings2 minRename the workspace and save the Google API key that PageSpeed measurements use.
- Members4 minInvite people by email, and give them the whole workspace or only the sites they need.
- Billing3 minCheck your URL credits for this period, your tier's limits and your past payments.
- Your account2 minChange your name, password, privacy choices and colour theme.
03Understand
These views tell you how healthy a site is, what is wrong with it and what to fix first.
- Overview5 minRead the site's health score out of 100, and see what broke and what was fixed since the last scan.
- Issues5 minWork through every problem the scan found, sorted so the most valuable fix is at the top.
- Inside a finding4 minOpen one problem to see what was found, every page it affects and how to fix it.
04Explore
Each of these twelve views shows one part of your site in detail. The page report shows everything about a single URL, and Search impact shows what happened in Google search after your fixes and deploys.
- Pages3 minBrowse every URL the scan reached, as a sortable table or as a folder tree.
- A page report4 minSee everything the scan found about a single page, across ten tabs.
- Content3 minTitles, descriptions, headings and word counts across every page.
- Schema3 minThe structured data on your pages, and the fields it is missing.
- Social3 minThe Open Graph and Twitter tags that control how your links look when shared.
- Structure3 minHow your pages are organised and linked together.
- Crawlability4 minrobots.txt, sitemaps, redirects, and the indexing rules on each page.
- Links3 minInternal and external links, and which ones are broken.
- Images3 minEvery image found, with its alt text, format and file size.
- Performance3 minPage load times, Core Web Vitals, and the files your pages load.
- Search performance4 minConnect a site's Google Search Console and see its clicks, impressions and queries. From Basic up.
- Search impact8 minSee your deploys on the search trend, clicks beside each page, and how fixed pages did against the rest of the site.
- AI readiness3 minHow easily AI answer engines can read and understand your pages.
- Trust3 minYour certificate, security headers, and anything still loading over HTTP.
05Monitor
Use these views after a scan to download reports, see what changed and look back at earlier scans.
06Manage
These views control how one site is scanned: its crawl rules, schedule, alerts, members and CI/CD.
07Connect
These pages connect PixyScan to the tools you already work in: your build pipeline and your AI assistant. Both are included from Basic up.
- CI/CD pipeline15 minAdd one command to GitHub Actions, GitLab, Bitbucket, CircleCI or Jenkins, so every deploy is scanned and a drop in score fails the build.
- AI assistant (MCP)10 minConnect Claude, Cursor, VS Code or another MCP assistant, so it can answer from your scans with each problem's fix guide.