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.

Log Into Siteimprove
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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. 

  • 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.