May 5-June 13
66% of prospective students say a university's website influences their decision to apply.
(Niche, 2023)
87% of students expect up-to-date program and admissions information on university websites.
(EAB, 2023)
A well-structured website increases time on page by 50% and reduced bounce rates.
(Nielsen Norman Group)
71% of disabled users leave a website if it's not accessible.
(Forrester, 2022)
53% of website traffic comes from organic search.
(BrightEdge, 2023)
Websites with broken links can see a 10-15% decrease in search rankings.
(Moz, 2023)
Thank you for participating in the annual website audit. With everyone’s help, we can keep the UVU website accurate, up-to-date, and effective.
The UVU website undergoes an audit every 12 months. The audit is coordinated by the Strategic Web Action Team (SWAT). Each campus division's web steward oversees the web audit for their division, with support from DEAT and UMC.
During the audit, departments across campus review their websites to confirm that they function properly, contain accurate information, are optimized for performance, and in compliance with security and accessibility best practices and requirements.
The tasks that are to be completed for each site are listed under the "Audit Checklist" section of this page.
Training opportunities are listed under the "Support and Training" section of this page.
In 2025 the audit will begin on May 5 and complete on June 13.
The web audit is coordinated by SWAT, which includes representation from each area of campus. Assigned site owners, site managers, and content contributors for each site on uvu.edu work on auditing the pages and files in their sites. Departments can decide who among their site owner, site manager, and content contributors will be responsible for audit tasks.
DEAT and UMC provide instruction, training and support on how to complete the tasks in the audit.
If you are not sure who should participate in the audit for your site, check your site's access/ownership roles
Web Stewards: find your division's site ownership report
In April 2026 new regulations for Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act will require that UVU's web content and mobile apps be compliant with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 AA standards. In order to prepare for this, the 2025 web audit includes tasks related to meeting those requirements for all web pages and digital documents that are published on uvu.edu.
Thank you for helping in this important effort to make sure our content is available to all users.
The tasks listed on this page should be completed for each page/file within your department site. If you are not sure how to complete these tasks, please review the tutorials on the Web Community Resources site, sign up for a training session, or reach out to your area web developer with questions. For complex fixes, you can submit a web request through Service Center.
This task improves accessibility.
This task improves search engine optimization.
After your site audit has been completed, please submit a site audit complete form. If you are responsible for more than one site, please submit a separate form for each. These submissions will be sent to your Web Steward to assist in their tracking of divisional audit completion.
After all the sites in your area have been audited, please submit a division audit complete form.
If there are sites or files that no longer need to be available on the public site, but which you would like to be archived for future access, you can submit an archive request through Service Center.
If there are files that no longer need to be available on the public site, and which do not need to be available for future access, you may recycle the files in the CMS.
If site redirects are no longer necessary, please submit a request to remove the redirect through Service Center.
Sign up for an audit training and work session for a refresher about working in Modern Campus CMS, details about completing audit tasks, and an opportunity to ask questions and get help with auditing your site.
