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Internal vs. External in Siteimprove Inventory Section

Understanding the difference between Internal vs. External in Siteimprove Inventory Section 

This article applies to: Siteimprove , Web Accessibility

Siteimprove may miss assets that are linked within your site if they don’t meet Siteimprove’s definition of an ‘internal’ asset, which includes pages, documents, PDFs, media files, links, and other digital assets.

Siteimprove will only scan an asset that contains the domain in the URL structure for the site you selected.

Examples

  • Internal PDF: If your index URL domain is , Siteimprove will scan /maps.pdf. 
  • External PDF: If your index URL domain is , Siteimprove will not scan a document that has the domain dfa.cornell.edu/maps.pdf. 

To add external documents to your Siteimprove crawl, read how to review external documents in Siteimprove.

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