What is Protect?
Engineering teams can sometimes unknowingly release code that can have a big impact on the the overall SEO performance or accessibility of the website.
This creates risk for sudden losses of traffic, rankings and in turn overall revenue, and potential non-compliance to WCAG guidelines.
Lumar Protect (formerly Automation Hub) gives development teams the ability to test their code for SEO or accessibility impact before pushing to production with a smart, automated and frictionless tool that allows for better collaboration between development & SEO/Marketing teams.
Who should use Protect?
Protect works by integrating into a business’s CI/CD tools e.g Jenkins, Github Actions or TeamCity using a wide range of authentication options in order to cater to any need. Protect enables SEO to become part of the core workflow which means teams can fix and identify problems proactively on an ongoing basis rather than having to go back after releases.
In becoming part of the development process Protect can be used by engineers, QAs, Release or Product Managers, SEOs, UX and accessibility experts.
How can Protect help Developers?
Protect has been designed to help solidify the communication between marketing and engineering teams and reduce the chance of human error. Protect notifies developers and SEOs of issues in code before it goes live, so they can be resolved quickly and easily.
How can Protect help QAs?
Protect can be set up to run alongside the normal QA process, reducing time needed to check for SEO issues. It can deploy across multiple pre-production test/QA environments and you can select from more than 160 tests and receive instant notifications of issues over email or slack.
How can Protect help Release Managers?
As protect is part of the development and QA process, releases can go ahead with greater confidence that errors will be significantly reduced. Protect has an extensive and flexible set of configuration options that let you define the outcome of tests either by blocking a release or raising a warning. This saves time and money in correcting any problems.
How can Protect help SEOs?
Protect helps SEO teams to maintain existing optimisation to prevent unnecessary traffic and revenue loss. Using Protect as part of the QA process means many problems will be identified and fixed without the need for SEOs to be continuously involved with releases - saving you valuable time which can be spent on revenue generating opportunities.
How can Protect help Accessibility Experts?
Protect helps accessibility teams to prevent avoidable accessibility issues being introduced to the live site. With Protect as part of the QA process, many issues can be identified and fixed before code is published, saving time by reducing the need for auditing and corrections once updates are made.