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January 2024 - including Segmentation Trends for Unarchived Reports, Page Grouping Metrics, Collapsible Navigation and WCAG Version Metric

Andrew Levey
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Reordering Boards in Monitor

Release Date: January 31st 2024

We’ve added the ability to drag and drop your Monitor boards in the left-hand navigation so you can keep the most important at the top of your list. To reorder the boards, simply hover your mouse over the board name, so you see the hand icon, click, and drag it to its new position. Please note that the board order will be reflected across all users in the account.

Animated screenshot of a Monitor dashboard showing the ability to drag and drop a dashboard into a new position.

Common Crawl Blocked Pages Report

Release Date: January 19th 2024

Common Crawl crawls the web and provides its datasets to the public for free so they are often used for training large language models. Common Crawl can be blocked in robots.txt with the CCBot user-agent token. Any pages which are blocked for the Common Crawl crawler will be shown in the new Common Crawl Blocked Pages report, which you’ll find in the Non-Indexable subcategory, in Indexability.

Segmentation Trends for Unarchived Reports

Release Date: January 11th 2024

Previously, when a new segment was created, you would need to run a new crawl before you could access data related to that segment. But we’re now able to generate data from unarchived crawls, so there’s no need to run a new one.

Now, when you run a new crawl, you will see a note indicating that the segment is being generated, rather than an instruction to to run a new crawl. Please bear in mind that the new segment will take a little time to generate.

And obviously segments being created during setup for a new project which has not been run will still need the first crawl to complete before being available.

Screenshot of the Lumar My Segments screen in Analyze, showing segment data being automatically generated without the need for a new crawl.

Page Grouping Metric

Release Date: January 11th 2024

We've added a new metric to capture the page type on the URL pattern, such as product listing or product details pages. Page groups can be configured in your Project's settings based on a RegEx matching a URL.

The first matching group's label will be stored as a new metric that can be used in report filters and Data Explorer. The page sampling feature has been integrated, which allows you to limit the percentage of matching pages included in the crawl. You can find the page grouping option in the advanced settings in step 4 of the crawl setup under URL Scope.

Once created, you can change the page sampling using the slider, reorder the groups, and delete. You'll then need to run a new crawl for the metric to be available.

Screenshot of the Page Grouping options in URL scope, in advanced settings under step 4 of the crawl setup. This shows two groups that have been setup - product details and category pages. The screenshot also shows page samping options as well as controls to move the different rules up and down, and delete.

Collapsible Navigation

Release Date: January 11th 2024

We’ve made our secondary navigation bar collapsible to make more room for viewing your crawl data.

When the navigation is in a collapsed state, you can expand automatically by moving your mouse cursor over the collapsed section.

Gif showing a Lumar Analyze report, and using the collapse navigation feature. The gif shows the navigation collapsing, hovering over the collapsed menu to temporarily reopen, and reopening the navigation.

WCAG Version Metric

Release Date: January 10th 2024

Since some success criteria were introduced the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) in different versions, it can be helpful to know which version the issue you’re investigating relates to. So we’ve added WCAG Version as a new metric which can be added to any report. Simply use the column selector above the table in the relevant report, search for WCAG and toggle the WCAG version column on. This will insert the column at the right of the report, and you can click and drag it to wherever you like in the table.

Screenshot of a Lumar Analyze report showing the option to add WCAG Version as a column in the report table.

Accessibility Parsing Reports Deprecation

Release Date: January 10th 2024

With the release of WCAG 2.2 in October last year, the 2.0 and 2.1 success criteria are essentially the same with the exception of 4.1.1 Parsing, which is now considered always satisfied for any content using HTML or XML, and is therefore deprecated. To avoid noise, we’ve now scheduled the following reports to be removed from the Lumar platform on February 10 2024:

  • Duplicate ID attribute values (A)
  • Duplicate active element IDs (A)
  • <marquee> element present (A)
  • Duplicate ARIA and label IDs (A)

Find out more about other deprecated or changed reports in Lumar.

Feedback

As always, we’re keen to hear your feedback to help us improve the Lumar platform. You can do this very easily by clicking on the smiley face in the bottom left-hand corner of any of our apps.

Animation of the feedback option in the bottom left corner of the Lumar platform, showing clicking on the smiling face, giving a rating and adding a comment.