October 2025 release notes: Watch visual playbacks of real user journeys | New accessibility checks in PDFs | Native support for the Adobe Experience Manager

Get an introduction to the product updates and new capabilities we released to the Siteimprove platform in October. Designed to enhance your experience and help you achieve more with ease and efficiency. 

The October release includes:

1. Session Replay and Struggle Detection: See Exactly Where Visitors Struggle
2. New PDF/UA Accessibility Checks: Improved List Structure Detection
3. Native support for the Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Universal Editor
4. Update to the Siteimprove plugin for Adobe Experience Manager (AEM)

1. Session Replay and Struggle Detection: See Exactly Where Visitors Struggle 

Session Reply and Struggle Detection is a set of advanced Marketing Analytics capabilities that gives you a clear view into how visitors interact with and experience your websites. Watch visual playbacks of real user journeys, spot frustration signals like rage clicks and endless scrolling, and understand why users drop off.

• Session Replay lets you watch full user sessions or zoom in on a single page view to see how people interact, where they get stuck, and how they move on.
• Struggle Detection automatically surfaces signals of friction, such as rage clicks or excessive scrolling, and highlights them in replays, behavior maps, funnels, and campaign views.

Instead of only tracking “what happened”, Session Reply and Struggle Detection reveal why it happened - making your analytics more actionable, helping you fix issues faster.

Learn more (resources open in new tabs): 

• Help Center Article - Getting Started with Session Replays
• Help Center Article - What is Struggle Detection
• Session Replays: Technical Documentation and Data Collection. 

2. New PDF/UA Accessibility Checks: Improved List Structure Detection

We’ve introduced two new automated checks to identify list structure issues in tagged PDFs. Properly structured lists are essential for assistive technologies to announce and navigate content accurately.

The new checks ask:

• Is the list item contained within a list?
  This check detects when a list item (LI) is not placed inside a parent list element (L). Without this structure, assistive technologies can’t announce the list or number of items in the list, and the content may be read as a plain paragraph.
• Does the list item contain both a label and a body?
  Ensures each list item includes both a bullet/number (label) and its text (body), properly nested together. Incorrect structures can cause screen readers to read bullets/numbers and text separately, instead of as a single list item.

These two new checks make it easier to detect and correct list issues in PDFs, supporting your efforts to deliver documents that are clear, consistent, and fully accessible.

Learn more in our Help Center: Accessibility: What does Siteimprove check for in PDFs? Opens in a new tab.

3. Native support for the Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Universal Editor

In a joint effort with Adobe, Siteimprove now integrates directly with the AEM Universal Editor, allowing content teams to check for accessibility, quality, brand, policy and SEO issues without leaving the editing environment. 

This seamless integration streamlines workflows, increases productivity, and helps teams catch and resolve issues earlier in the content creation process, ensuring consistent digital quality. 

The integration is now available on Adobe’s Marketplace. Opens in a new tab.

4. Update to the Siteimprove plugin for Adobe Experience Manager

We’ve released an update to the Siteimprove plugin for Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), available for AEM Cloud, 6.4, and 6.5. Improves how the "prepublish view" loads and behaves. The content check button now appears on initial load, and the prepublish toggle has been removed for a cleaner interface.

Download the new AEM plugin here: Adobe Experience Manager + Siteimprove. Opens in a new tab.

In addition, we’ve rolled out updates to all CMS plugins on SDK v2.X (including Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), Sitecore, Drupal, WordPress, and Optimizely) with improvements to highlighting in Prepublish, ensuring more accurate detection of relevant page elements across CMS platforms. 

These improvements apply automatically to the relevant plugins - no plugin update is required.