To configure a site's Advanced Settings, select the Advanced tab in the Site Settings section of the Site Settings panel.

Select box to Enable PDF checking on the site. If you don't see this box, the feature hasn't been turned on for your account. Contact us using the chat bubble and we can get that set up for you.

By default, sites will obey robots.txt rules configured within a site.

Disobey robots.txt rules by deselecting the Obey robots.txt checkbox.

By default, the Viewport is set to Use Default Viewport, 1440x900.

For more options, select the Viewport dropdown. In the dropdown, you will find the following options:

Selecting Custom Viewport in the Viewport dropdown will allow you to enter the exact pixel specification you need.

The following fields will appear when this option is selected :

The default values for the Viewport Width/Height and the Crawl Using a Mobile/Touch Screen checkboxes are taken from the last pre-set selection in the Viewport dropdown.

Refer to the Remove optional banner/popup content from displaying on webpages within DubBot article for more information about learning how to close out content sections like Cookie notifications, Survey popups, Alerts, etc., before any analysis occurs on the page.

Entries in this field produce a click action, which can be useful for expanding accordions or accepting cookies' terms of use.

This field is useful when there is some element that needs to be removed from the page to enhance the page preview experience where a JavaScript click action will not remove the content that may be making the page hard to view.

This is useful for removing elements that make viewing the cached copy of a page difficult inside the DubBot app. This is common for loader icons that do not close out on their own and Chat boxes that take up space or cover important page elements. Examples could include modals and overlays that appear over pages.

Admins can determine a set number of seconds for DubBot to wait between webpages being crawled. This is done to slow DubBot traffic to a web server for web servers that require a slower amount of activity.

Note: Setting any amount of delay (above 0 seconds) will also prevent DubBot from performing parallel crawls. Entering the amount of 1 second (or higher) will result in the application crawling pages one by one. The delay is entered in whole seconds. The maximum amount of time for a delay is 10 seconds.

Changing this setting will result in a slower crawl and analysis by DubBot. The recommendation is to start with 1 when updating this setting.

If your site implements lazy loading, check the Scroll to the bottom of each page box. This ensures that all of your pages’ content is loaded before processing the page.

By default, DubBot uses proxy rewriting to display some content from a client’s site in the app. Sometimes, clients have a setup that doesn't allow this to work. A good, simple test if something isn’t displaying correctly in DubBot is to check this box and re-crawl the site.

Generally, disabling the proxy is fine, but there are two main reasons the proxy exists:

The Additional Domains allowed in Crawl field allows you to enter supplementary domains that may be needed in your site crawl. Some possible uses:

One full domain, including http(s)://, should be entered on each line.

Check the Allow crawler to check HTTPS and HTTP links box if you have a mix of these protocols on pages in your site.

The Page load timeout (in seconds) field allows administrators to select how long it will take for a page to be timed-out. The default timeout is 60 seconds. This can be modified to be up to 120 seconds, using whole numbers for seconds.

For websites with slower loading webpages, increasing the Page load timeout can be necessary to ensure the webpages are properly inventoried, tested, and not reported as a page that timed out.

In this field enter the number of seconds (up to 10 ) the crawler will wait before crawling the next page or asset. Use the default value of 0 for parallel crawling. This sometimes needs to be adjusted due to settings on a site's server.

Setting a Customer Crawler User Agent is only for the advanced user. Refer to this article that outlines Example Custom User Agents.

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If the Site you are crawling is behind a login, you can have our crawler access that content. Learn more about Crawling behind a login.

The default cadence for crawling and testing sites is every seven (7) days. To slow this cadence, update the Days between crawls field. DubBot requires whole numbers, and the cadence can be seven (7) or more days.