Sitemorse
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What is Sitemorse
Sitemorse is a web accessibility and quality monitoring platform that scans websites to identify issues related to accessibility standards, usability, and compliance. It is used by digital teams and compliance stakeholders to audit pages, track remediation progress, and support ongoing governance of web content. The product focuses on automated testing and reporting across sites, with workflows intended to help organizations prioritize and fix issues over time.
Automated accessibility scanning
Sitemorse provides automated checks that can be run across pages to surface common accessibility failures and compliance risks. This supports continuous monitoring rather than one-time audits. Automated reporting helps teams triage issues and track whether fixes reduce recurring errors. It fits organizations that need repeatable, tool-driven oversight across multiple web properties.
Governance-oriented reporting
The platform emphasizes dashboards and reports that can be shared with stakeholders responsible for digital governance and compliance. This helps translate technical findings into measurable targets and trends over time. It can support internal accountability by showing which sites or sections drive the most issues. These capabilities align with teams managing standards across distributed content owners.
Broad website quality checks
Beyond accessibility, Sitemorse is positioned to identify other website quality issues that affect user experience and compliance programs. This can reduce the need to run separate tools for different categories of web risk. Consolidated findings can help prioritize work when teams have limited remediation capacity. It is useful when accessibility is managed as part of a wider web quality governance process.
Limited manual testing coverage
Like other automated accessibility scanners, Sitemorse cannot fully validate requirements that depend on human judgment or assistive-technology testing. Items such as meaningful alternative text, correct reading order in complex layouts, and usability for screen reader users often require manual review. Organizations typically need complementary expert audits and user testing to reach higher assurance. This can increase total effort for formal compliance programs.
Remediation workflow depth varies
Accessibility programs often require tight integration with issue trackers, development pipelines, and content workflows. Depending on the organization’s needs, Sitemorse’s built-in workflow and integrations may not match the depth of platforms that provide end-to-end ticketing, policy management, and role-based governance. Teams may need to build process around exported reports. This can slow remediation in large, multi-team environments.
Public vendor details unclear
Some vendor attributes (such as current corporate structure, headquarters, and founding year) are not consistently documented in widely available public sources. This can make due diligence harder for procurement teams that require verified corporate information. Buyers may need to confirm details directly with the vendor during evaluation. Lack of clear public documentation can also complicate risk and compliance reviews.
Plan & Pricing
Pricing model: Subscription (per-domain) with optional add-ons / one-time setup fees (usage-based)
Free tier/trial: No permanent free subscription tier for the Sitemorse service found on the official site; time-limited trials / free offers for specific offerings exist (see notes).
Published prices (official site):
- Domains: Each domain added to the service — $300 (prices shown in USD, monthly). Note: Heartbeat is included for each domain.
- Schedule: Each schedule added — $30 (monthly). (mobile schedule example also $30)
- Key pages: Adding key pages to your service — $30 (monthly)
- Content activity: Adding content activity — from $450 (monthly)
- Content update: Adding content update — $250 (monthly)
- IN CMS (CMS integration): Adding IN CMS — $9 per user (monthly)
- LIVE SEARCH: Adding LIVE SEARCH to your service — $50 (monthly)
- SOCIAL QA: Each social monitor added — $25 (monthly)
- Supported setup (onboarding): One-time charge — $1,675
- Managed service (ongoing support): Adding managed service — from $500 (monthly)
- Private workshop: Adding a private workshop — $775 (one-off)
- PRE LAUNCH: Adding PRE LAUNCH setup & 3 months usage — $875 (one-off)
- Custom brand: Adding brand rules (one-time charge) — $2,750
Indexes (one-time setup + per-website fees where stated):
- ACCESSIBILITYINDEX: One-time setup $250 (includes up to 25 websites); each 25 additional websites $50. (Alternate listing on page: one-time setup $250 / each website $50 (min 10)).
- PRIVATEINDEX: One-time setup $1,250 (includes up to 25 websites); each 25 additional websites $50. (Alternate listing: one-time setup $1,250 / each website $50 (min 10)).
- BRANDINDEX: One-time setup $3,500 (includes up to 25 websites); each 25 additional websites $50. (Alternate listing: one-time setup $3,500 / each website $50 (min 10)).
Billing notes (from official site): All figures are shown in US$ and are monthly by default. If paying annually, you get two months free; paying three years in advance gives the fourth year free.
Free plan / trial availability (official site):
- Free plan (permanent free subscription tier): Unavailable — no permanent free subscription tier for the Sitemorse service is stated on the pricing page.
- Time-limited trial / free offer: Available — the site advertises ARTY (their accessibility assistant) will visit non-subscribers’ websites free for 90 days, and Sitemorse offers a free page-checker tool that returns a diagnostic result for a single page.
Notes / caveats:
- The pricing page asks customers to contact Sitemorse for quote requests and notes a self-service area is not yet finished; some guidance and bespoke/customisation charges are described. Where the page lists “from” or minimums (e.g., "from $450", "from $500") these indicate entry-level pricing for that option; enterprise/custom pricing likely requires contacting sales.
- The site contains some repeated/alternate phrasing for index setup costs — I transcribed both variants as shown on the official page.
(Information extracted only from Sitemorse's official website pricing and product pages.)
Seller details
Sitemorse Ltd
Reading, England, United Kingdom
2003
Private
https://www.sitemorse.com/
https://x.com/sitemorse
https://www.linkedin.com/company/sitemorse
