This put up was up to date on June 11, 2018. It was initially revealed in September 2014.
Are you new to E-mail on Acid? In that case, we’d prefer to stroll you thru the method of getting your electronic mail take a look at outcomes, in addition to how one can analyze and troubleshoot your take a look at outcomes.
We’ve already given you the lowdown on how one can run a take a look at, however now we’re going to get into the nitty-gritty of how one can navigate via your take a look at outcomes and all of the options you should utilize in case you run into coding issues.
Accessing Your E-mail on Acid Take a look at Outcomes
When you’ve run your electronic mail take a look at, there are two methods to view your take a look at outcomes. You possibly can entry the outcomes via the Inbox, which is positioned on the prime of the left navigation bar.
Your inbox will present outcomes from all checks run throughout the final 30 days. The most recent outcomes will probably be on the prime.
If you wish to begin viewing a few of the outcomes, click on on the take a look at topic line and the preview pane will pop up on the best facet of the display. You possibly can click on on any thumbnail to go immediately into that particular preview. Or, you’ll be able to click on on the diagonal arrows on the prime of the pane to broaden all of your outcomes right into a full web page.
Click on on any preview thumbnail to leap straight into viewing your outcomes. You too can share your take a look at outcomes, inline your CSS, obtain your screenshots and preview the e-mail you examined immediately from this preview pane.
The opposite option to entry your electronic mail previews is in your private electronic mail inbox via the autoprocess testing methodology. If you’re operating an autoprocess take a look at, you’ll get an electronic mail each time you create a brand new take a look at. We ship the e-mail 10 minutes after the take a look at is began. Simply click on on a thumbnail, or the button on the backside of the display, and we’ll take you to the “Shared” outcomes for that take a look at. As a result of these are the shared outcomes, you gained’t have to log in to view them.
Under is an instance of take a look at outcomes going to a private inbox. Please word that shared outcomes don’t have all of the options you’ll see when logged in to the E-mail on Acid platform.
If you happen to aren’t getting your take a look at outcomes delivered to your private inbox, ensure you have this characteristic enabled.
Now that you already know the place your checks are, we’ll get into how one can transfer round from preview to preview inside your take a look at outcomes.
Navigating By Your Previews
The best option to look via every preview is through the use of your arrow keys. Merely press the left arrow key to go to the earlier preview and the best arrow key to leap ahead to the subsequent one.
You probably have a selected shopper you wish to dive into, hover your mouse over the best navigation bar and also you’ll see a full checklist of the purchasers and units you examined. From the navigation bar, click on on the shopper you’d prefer to view. Use the pin icon to make the best navigation bar keep expanded.
Not seeing a shopper you wished to check? This may occur if the shopper isn’t checked in your electronic mail shopper default settings. Click on right here to get directions on enhancing your default purchasers.
E-mail on Acid additionally supplies vertical AND horizontal cell views. Drag, slide, and rotate your electronic mail identical to you’ll when viewing it within the precise machine. That’s 4 display captures for every rotating machine:
- Vertical with photos enabled (default)
- Vertical with picture blocking
- Horizontal with photos enabled
- Horizontal with picture blocking
As soon as all of your take a look at outcomes are wanting good, you’ll be able to share your outcomes simply together with your colleagues. Merely click on “Share” and duplicate the hyperlink. Ship it out to collaborate together with your group.
Validating Your Photos and Hyperlinks
Whereas thumbing via your take a look at previews, you might discover that none of your hyperlinks or photos are clickable. It is because we return solely a screenshot of precisely what your electronic mail seems like inside every inbox. Don’t fear – you’ll be able to nonetheless test to verify these hyperlinks and pictures work correctly.
To test all of the hyperlinks and pictures inside your electronic mail, click on the “URL Validation” tab.
You will note validation and fame info for every hyperlink and picture. This implies you’ll be able to see if any hyperlinks resolved with error messages or if any hyperlink domains are blocklisted. Take a look at a pattern under:
E-mail on Acid lists all of your URLs individually, so you’ll be able to establish any URL which may be inflicting an issue. Together with blocklisted URLs in your electronic mail may cause spam filters to flag your message.
Now that we’ve coated how and the place to view your checks, listed below are some steps you’ll be able to take if you discover issues in your take a look at outcomes.
Troubleshooting Code Points
All electronic mail purchasers use completely different rendering engines to show an electronic mail. That’s why your electronic mail may look stunning in a single shopper, however not in one other. Or, you can have made a easy coding mistake – it occurs to one of the best of us. Fortunately, we’re right here to assist. Once you see issues together with your previews, there are a pair steps you’ll be able to take:
Step 1: Find and word the e-mail purchasers that look funky
When you’re scrolling via your previews, word which purchasers are having rendering points. This can allow you to simply isolate the purchasers when it’s time to troubleshoot.
Step 2: Determine rendering points with our Code Evaluation
Our Code Evaluation identifies code components that aren’t supported in every electronic mail shopper. Warnings are categorised as essential, reasonable, or minor. Important warnings may adversely have an effect on your structure, whereas minor warnings may embrace unsupported fonts, alt tags, or title tags.
We provide a code evaluation for each shopper and machine. To entry this device, click on in your electronic mail preview and toggle the “View” drop-down menu above the preview. Choose “Code Evaluation Abstract” and the outcomes will probably be displayed on the best facet of the display.
If you happen to repair the errors specified by the code evaluation tab and you’re nonetheless seeing the identical issues, it’s time so that you can dive into our library of coding tips.
Step 3: Leverage our Ideas and Methods
Since 2008, we’ve documented tons of quirks that pop up when growing HTML electronic mail. Particulars and workarounds are supplied for every particular person shopper, all from inside your take a look at consequence window!
To entry Ideas and Methods for every particular person shopper, ensure you are within the right preview and click on on the “</>” button positioned to the left of each screenshot. Within the instance under, we’re in AOL Chrome (Mac) so after we click on on the Ideas and Methods tab, we see workarounds particularly associated to AOL.
Step 4: Leap on our weblog
Over time we have now constructed up a killer library of sources on our weblog, all because of some nice electronic mail builders, entrepreneurs and designers. Weblog feedback provide an interactive place to go and figuratively stand across the water cooler speaking about electronic mail code and quirky purchasers.
We additionally put up to our weblog weekly with electronic mail suggestions and tips protecting subjects like how electronic mail file dimension impacts deliverability and why Outlook is including these further strains to your electronic mail. It’s our job to remain on prime of coding points and the most recent shopper oddities so that you don’t should.
Different Instruments: Resubmit your screenshot
From time to time, a “stitching” difficulty can happen after we are creating your previews. A sewing difficulty may minimize off your electronic mail, slice via the center of your picture or have the e-mail be spliced and stitched again collectively in an unnatural method. If you happen to see a part of a picture lacking, it’s both as a result of the containing ingredient is just too small, or as a result of a sewing difficulty occurred. Typically, you’ll be able to repair a sewing difficulty just by reprocessing your screenshot.
Take a look at an instance of an electronic mail that fell sufferer to minor stitching points under:
To resubmit your screenshot, click on on the preview that’s having stitching points and discover the “Reprocess Screenshot” button on the prime of the dashboard. It seems like a counterclockwise arrow.
It’s necessary to notice which you could solely reprocess a shopper screenshot one time. Utilizing this characteristic resubmits the very same code, so this isn’t a option to take a look at adjustments. If you’re nonetheless seeing rendering points, strive the steps laid out above.
Take a look at and Take a look at Once more
After you’ve discovered a repair on your coding points, ship one other take a look at via our system to confirm your repair and ensure it didn’t trigger a problem in every other electronic mail shopper. E-mail testing is an iterative course of, and each difficulty you repair will carry you one step nearer to the right electronic mail.
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Good luck, and glad testing!
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