User guide4 min

Inside a finding

Open a check from the Issues screen to get a screen about that one problem. Four tabs show what was found, which pages have it, how to fix it and what the check tests. Each tab has its own link, so you can send a colleague straight to it.

How to get there#

Click any row on the Issues screen.

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Open Issues in the site sidebar
It is in the Understand group, below the Overview.
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Click a row
The check opens on its Overview tab. To move to the next check, use the Previous issue and Next issue arrows at the top right (they show your place, such as 2 / 53), or press j and k. All issues takes you back to the list.

An opened finding: severity and category badges beside the title, Ignore, Report, Export and All issues actions, a tab strip, five stat tiles, then What was found, Where these pages sit, and the first pages affected. — The Overview tab shows five figures across the top, then what the scan found and where.

The top of the screen#

Five figures sit across the top of the Overview tab. The buttons in the header are the actions you can take.

Field	Example	What it does
Pages affected	68 of 80	How many crawled pages have the problem. A check that belongs to the whole site says Site-wide instead.
Findings	68 · 6 distinct	How many times the problem was found, and how many different values were involved. Six distinct values on 68 pages often means six templates to fix, not 68 pages.
Score gain	+1.1 pts	Points your health score would gain if this check passed everywhere. Suggestions say Not scored, because they never cost points.
Site sections touched	3	How many top-level folders of your site, such as /blog or /shop, contain affected pages.
Last seen	A date	The date of the latest scan that found this problem.
Ignore	Button	Stops listing this check on every page, some pages, or all but some pages. An ignored check still costs its points.
Report	Button	Tells the PixyScan team you think the check got it wrong, such as flagging a page it should not have. It does not ignore the check.
Export	Button	Downloads this finding as a PDF, CSV, Excel workbook, JSON or Markdown file.
Rescan to verify	Button	Starts a new full scan of the site, after asking you to confirm. Use it once your fix is live.

The four tabs#

Each tab answers one question about the problem. Each has its own link you can share.

Field	Answers	What it does
Overview	What was found?	What was found, how many pages have each value, which folders the pages sit in, and the first few affected pages.
Affected pages	Where exactly?	Every affected URL and the value found on it, with buttons to open that page's report, open the live page or copy the URL. With Search Console connected, Clicks and Impressions columns let you sort the pages by traffic. Don't see this tab? Site-wide checks have no page list, so it is hidden for them.
How to fix	What do I change?	An example of the correct code (markup) or setting, then the steps as a checklist. It remembers what you ticked for this site.
About this check	What does it test?	What the check looks for and why it matters, how it is detected, its severity and weight, and references for further reading.

The How to fix tab of a finding: before-and-after examples, then the steps as a checklist. — The How to fix tab shows an example you can copy, then the steps as a checklist.

The Affected pages tab: a row per URL with the value found on it, its status badge, and controls to open the page report, open the live page or copy the URL. — The Affected pages tab lists every URL with the problem. Each row can open that page's report.

Fix guides are written by people, and a few are still missing

Every fix guide is written by a person. Nothing is generated, and PixyScan never changes your site. If a check has no written steps yet, the How to fix tab says so. The Overview and Affected pages tabs still show exactly what is wrong, and a new scan confirms your fix.

After you fix it#

Scan again to confirm the fix, then check what changed.

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Press Rescan to verify
Do this once your fix is live. It runs a new scan.
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Check the result
If the fix worked, the check leaves the Issues list. It shows as Resolved under the Passing filter.
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Fixed several things? Open Changes
Changes lists every check that is new, resolved or still open since the previous scan.

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