AccessGuard vs Siteimprove for agency audits
Siteimprove is an enterprise platform that crawls and monitors large sites alongside SEO and analytics. AccessGuard is a focused audit tool with public pricing and client reports.
Which one fits
Siteimprove suits large organisations that monitor big sites continuously. AccessGuard suits agencies auditing the key pages of many client sites.
- Choose Siteimprove if
- You need every page of a large site crawled and monitored on a schedule.
- You want accessibility, SEO, content quality and analytics in one platform.
- You have budget for an enterprise contract.
- Choose AccessGuard if
- You audit the key pages of many smaller client sites.
- You want to start today with public pricing and no sales call.
- You send clients reports under your agency's name with a fix for each finding.
Side by side
| What you need | AccessGuard | Siteimprove |
|---|---|---|
| Automated WCAG checks | Yes | Yes |
| Crawls the whole site AccessGuard reads the site's sitemap and picks a page of every kind, and you add more from its list | No | Yes |
| Scheduled monitoring AccessGuard rescans the pages you add daily, weekly or monthly | Partly | Yes |
| SEO | No | Yes |
| Public pricing and self-serve signup | Yes | No |
| Suggested code fix per finding AI fixes on AccessGuard paid plans | Yes | Partly |
Where Siteimprove is better
- Whole-site coverage
- Siteimprove crawls large sites and monitors every page it finds. AccessGuard monitors the pages you pick from a site's sitemap or add by hand.
- One platform for web governance
- Accessibility sits next to SEO, analytics and content quality, which large web teams value.
- Enterprise features
- Permissions, policies and dashboards for organisations with many editors.
Pricing
Prices change. Check each vendor's page before you decide.
- AccessGuard
- Free audit of any page without an account, and a free plan of 1 site and 10 pages when you sign up. Plans from €14.99 a month. See pricing
- Siteimprove
- Siteimprove doesn't publish prices. Its pricing page offers a demo with its sales team instead. Source (Siteimprove pricing, opens in new tab)
Questions
Can AccessGuard replace Siteimprove?
For large sites that need every page crawled and monitored, not yet. For agencies auditing and monitoring the key pages of client sites and reporting to clients, it covers that job at a much smaller price.
Does AccessGuard crawl sites?
No. It reads each site's sitemap and picks one page of every kind, following the W3C's method for evaluating a website, and you can swap or add any page the sitemap lists. It doesn't follow links to find pages the sitemap leaves out.
Do I need a sales call to start?
No. Run a free audit without an account, or sign up for the free plan of 1 site and 10 pages.
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- AccessGuard vs Pope Tech
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- Headings and landmarks checker
A page's URL in, its heading outline and landmarks out, with what is wrong in them.
- Link text checker
Finds links with no accessible name, vague text like "click here", and links that open new windows without warning.
- Color contrast checker
Two colors in, the ratio out, and the nearest color that passes WCAG 2.2.
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