Visual scan settings

Learn about the configurable settings for Visual scan.

Use the Visual scan settings to customize how your application is scanned. You can add delays, enable layout testing, set ignore thresholds, and enable advanced options to better simulate real-world rendering conditions.

Add delay

Choose a delay between page load and screenshot capture. You can set a delay of up to 30 seconds.

Layout Testing

Turn on the Layout Testing toggle while configuring your visual scan to check if UI elements are correctly positioned. Layout testing does not verify content changes.

Compare with an alternate environment

Compare the pages in your scan against the same pages on another environment, such as staging against production, within a single scan run.

1. In Advanced scan settings, select the Visual Scan tab.
2. Turn on the Compare with an alternate environment toggle.
3. In the Enter alternate environment URL field, enter the domain of your alternate environment.

The URLs added to the scan act as the baseline. The scan compares the matching pages on the alternate environment against that baseline.

If you leave the field empty, Website Scanner asks you to enter a URL or turn the setting off.

Configure settings after scan creation

After creating a scan, you can click the Visual scanner settings option to select the browsers, enable the Compare with previous scan run option, and set other Advanced Options.

Advanced options

• Configure the diff sensitivity for your created project to customize the way visual changes appear in builds. For more information, see Diff sensitivity.

• Use the Intelli Ignore feature to recognize and ignore tiny, unimportant changes on webpage images. For more information, see Intelli ignore.

Set Diff Ignore threshold

You can configure a diff ignore percentage threshold at the project level. This threshold represents the percentage of pixels that have changed. Only visual changes above the threshold trigger alerts. Website Scanner marks smaller differences as unchanged, so fewer false positives reach your review queue.