Smart Check
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This article applies to the Business and Enterprise plans.
Overview
Smart Check is a quality assurance tool for your designs. It's integrated into RGE Studio's email and landing page builder (formerly known as Beefree). It scans your designs for common issues. These issues can affect accessibility and performance.
Prerequisites
Your user role controls what you can do in Smart Check:
- View and fix issues: Owner, Admin, Manager, Editor, or Contributor.
- View issues only: Viewer or External Reviewer (comments only).
How to Use Smart Check
Accessing Smart Check
To open Smart Check:
- Open your design in the RGE Studio builder.
- Click the Smart Check icon in the top bar.
The image below shows the Smart Check icon in the builder.
The Smart Check modal lists all Warnings and Suggestions. It also lists the elements that passed the check.
The top of the modal shows how many warnings and suggestions relate to links. These are links on interactive elements, such as buttons and images. Click this count to open the Link Management section.
Scroll through the list of Warnings and Suggestions. Hover over an item to jump to the related section. Then, apply the change to resolve it.
You can view all elements that passed the check in the Passed section.
Smart Check warnings also appear:
- When you export a design.
- When you send a test.
- When you request a review.
Settings
Open Settings from the upper-right corner of the Smart Check modal. All checks are on by default. You can turn off any warning or suggestion in this menu.
Your settings apply only to you. Each design type also has its own settings:
- Emails
- Pages
- Templates
- Saved rows
For example, if you change settings in an email, they apply to all your emails.
Warnings and Suggestions
Smart Check runs different types of checks on your design. Each check can result in a Warning or a Suggestion.
A Warning means there is a critical issue. Fix it before you export your design.
A Suggestion means there is a minor issue. You should still fix it before you export.
Types of Checks
The tables below list each check. They show whether a check results in a Warning or a Suggestion.
Accessibility
Smart Check runs accessibility checks based on the WCAG AA accessibility standards. The table below lists each check and its result.
| Elements Checked | Related Warnings | Related Suggestions |
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Each warning shows details, the content name, and a link to the element. Click the link to jump to the element. |
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When you export an email, Smart Check adds the subject line to the <title> tag in the HTML.
Link Management
The table below lists the checks Smart Check runs on links.
| Elements Checked | Related Warnings | Related Suggestions |
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Interactive elements: buttons, images, menus, social icons, icons, stickers, and GIFs. Mandatory links. Other elements: titles, paragraphs, lists, and tables. |
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*Smart Check asks you to verify URLs that don't start with HTTP or HTTPS. You can find these URLs in the All section, labeled Not monitored.
Smart Check uses an allow list for social media links. These links always pass the check. The allow list includes links for:
- X/Twitter
These platforms return errors to automated link checks, even for valid links. Double-check your social links before you send.
Image Weight
The table below lists the image weight checks.
| Elements Checked | Related Warnings | Related Suggestions |
| Images, icons, stickers, GIFs, and social icons |
A warning appears when an image is over these limits:
When you fix the warnings, Smart Check shows All Clear. |
None |
Design Details
The table below lists the subject and preheader checks.
| Elements Checked | Related Warnings | Related Suggestions |
| Subject and preheader fields | None | A suggestion appears if either field is empty. Click the suggestion to fill out the field. |
HTML Weight
The table below lists the HTML weight checks.
| Elements Checked | Related Warnings | Related Suggestions |
| Email HTML weight. This check applies to emails only. |
Smart Check always shows your email's total HTML weight. This helps you avoid issues like Gmail clipping. A warning appears if your HTML is over 80 KB. The warning shows your current HTML size. Click Learn more for best practices. |
None |
Important Considerations
Synced Rows
Keep these points in mind when you use Synced Rows:
- Smart Check updates after you edit a synced row and reopen Smart Check.
- Bulk changes, like alt text updates, apply to synced rows only when you edit them in the Synced Row builder.
Feature Limitations
- Smart Check checks the primary language of your design only. It skips multilingual design alternatives.
- Smart Check does not check form links on landing pages.
- External Reviewers and Viewers see a tooltip instead of the Subject and Preheader modal. They can leave a comment if these fields are missing.
- Color contrast checks use the background color of the content, column, or row. Check text on background images yourself.
If you have any questions, feel free to contact us.
Comments
3 comments
Thanks, beefree! Another great feature of the platform. So happy to see this APP is getting better and better for years. The alt text is one of easy missing elements.
However, like to point out one thing which is not related with smart check, the one of my wishing list submitted years ago: non-wrap on copy (for special brand name required stay in one line all the time). Hope this function can be added in this wonderful platform.
Hi Shi! Thanks for your comment. We are glad that you appreciate our new feature! About the Alt text, it's something we've already implemented (see this article), but maybe you are referring to something different? I also opened a ticket on your behalf to track your request so we can forward it to the Product Team. Cheers.
This is a very useful feature, tested it yesterday and found a missing link on a button that our user forgot to assign. It would be nice if there was an option to automatically run Smart Check whenever a design was saved or exported vs. manually having to remember to do it.
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