Over the interval of 1 yr, we checked out over 5 million Previews and QA leads to Litmus and located that 96% of emails contained content material errors and 75% had damaged hyperlinks. These points may result in a scarcity of engagement, misplaced e-mail income, and extra critically—diminished model belief.
What number of instances have you ever unsubscribed from a model’s e-mail as a result of they saved sending you damaged emails? Or maybe you merely ghost them within the inbox.
Making an amazing first impression within the inbox is essential as a result of it’ll enhance your possibilities of making an amazing second, third, and extra nice impressions! And a bulletproof e-mail QA testing course of will get you there.
However we acknowledge e-mail testing generally is a handbook, time-consuming course of that’s very tempting to only skip now and again.
Don’t skip it! Automate your e-mail testing course of as a substitute. Litmus provide the capability to streamline and automate your e-mail testing that can assist you to by no means ship one other damaged e-mail.
Listed below are six handbook e-mail testing duties you may automate with Litmus.
1. Enhance deliverability with pre-send spam testing
Even the most effective copy and essentially the most lovely e-mail design received’t make an affect in case your e-mail is delivered to the spam folder. Making certain you aren’t on any blocklists and see in case your DMARC document is about up accurately and your SPF and DKIM are correctly authenticated with Litmus Spam Testing. Plus, you may even examine in in your BIMI authentication. Resolve any points earlier than you hit ship and take advantage of the e-mail you’re about to ship.
Utilizing Spam Testing in Previews & QA, you may immediately see whether or not or not your IP addresses and domains are on any blocklists and double examine your e-mail’s authentication. If there are any points, we’ll offer you actionable recommendation on easy methods to repair them. You can too ship your e-mail on to Litmus utilizing your distinctive Litmus take a look at tackle to robotically run a spam take a look at in Litmus Check!
2. Improve your e-mail accessibility
Making your emails accessible for your entire subscribers is extremely essential. Go above and past to achieve these subscribers who depend on display readers to assist them have interaction with emails.
As display readers—and listening to emails on display readers—rise in reputation, it’s best to take into consideration how your e-mail sounds. With Accessibility Testing in Litmus Previews & QA, that’s now simpler than ever.
Litmus Previews & QA checks your e-mail towards accessible design and coding greatest practices—like language tags, desk roles, and content material hierarchy—and can spotlight issues that might use enchancment. You can too hearken to how your e-mail sounds to a display reader with an audio recording and transcript.
Not loving the way it sounds? Make the required edits in Litmus Builder, push your up to date code to Guidelines, and head again to that audio recording. Litmus Guidelines will replace the audio recording so precisely what your e-mail will sound wish to your subscribers that use display readers.
3. Confirm your emails look nice in all e-mail shoppers
By previewing what your e-mail appears like in quite a lot of e-mail shoppers earlier than you hit ship, you may make sure that your subscribers may have the very best expertise interacting together with your e-mail. Don’t fear, you don’t should manually preview your e-mail within the a whole lot of e-mail shoppers your viewers makes use of.
Robotically preview your emails in 100+ e-mail shoppers and units utilizing Litmus Electronic mail Previews in Litmus Preview & QA to see how your subscribers see your emails. And whenever you ship your e-mail on to Litmus utilizing your distinctive Litmus take a look at tackle, you’ll be capable to catch any rendering points brought on by code modifications your e-mail service supplier (ESP) has made to your e-mail. (Sadly, that may occur!)
You can too simply flag problematic previews for assessment after which filter previews by those you’ve flagged to focus your QA course of.
4. Double-check ALT textual content and loading pace
Generally, photos can show to be too massive to correctly load. Your subscriber may very well be on a less-than-reliable cell community. Or perhaps you’re together with retina photos for high-DPI shows, perhaps you’re sending out an e-mail totally made from photos (however we hope you’re not!)—regardless of the motive, you need to ensure you’re optimizing these photos in your subscribers.
In case your photos take too lengthy to load, your message could also be misplaced, and your subscribers could abandon your e-mail with out taking any motion. With Litmus Previews & QA, you may double examine how shortly—or slowly—your photos load to see if you might want to rethink utilizing sure imagery or contemplate compressing these photos.
Whereas you are able to do every thing in your energy to optimize your photos in order that they load as shortly as attainable, you should still have some subscribers which have photos off by default of their inbox. In that case, you need to be certain so as to add ALT textual content to any picture that may add worth for the subscriber. In Litmus Previews & QA, you may flip photos off to preview your e-mail and the way it will seem with any ALT textual content you will have arrange.
Get your staff onboard
Get your request for Litmus accredited—by the entire staff—with these easy-to-reference speaking factors.
5. Activate Hyperlink Monitoring in Electronic mail Guardian to robotically catch damaged hyperlinks
Let’s say your e-mail has an incredible topic line and also you’ve piqued your viewers’s curiosity. They click on by way of your e-mail—however that click on takes them to… nowhere. Oops!
Litmus Electronic mail Guardian proactively displays your the hyperlinks in your emails so you may catch damaged hyperlinks earlier than a subscriber reaches out to you.
When a subscriber clicks a hyperlink, that request is distributed to the web site the place your content material is hosted. If the web site can’t return the content material to a subscriber by way of the hyperlink offered, the hosted web site will talk utilizing standing codes.
We report these again to you, robotically! Electronic mail Guardian displays your e-mail hyperlinks, so you will have peace of thoughts your hyperlinks are working even after you will have examined them. That is nice in your most-used e-mail templates or transactional emails that you’re not working QA on earlier than every ship.
6. Get 24/7 monitoring in your emails with Electronic mail Guardian
Hold a pulse on automated emails and ceaselessly used e-mail templates by turning on Electronic mail Guardian after you will have QA’d your e-mail!
Whenever you activate Electronic mail Guardian we provide you with a warning of sudden e-mail shopper modifications or damaged/slow-to-loading hyperlinks or photos that may affect the way in which your subscribers expertise your e-mail. You’ll additionally obtain an e-mail notification so you may resolve the issue, retest your e-mail, and proceed monitoring for future modifications, all inside Litmus.
Automate e-mail testing and make an amazing first impression
Remodel your e-mail testing course of and automate these handbook duties, so you may spend extra time perfecting your e-mail advertising and marketing technique.
Hitting “ship” doesn’t should be hectic
See what your emails seem like in 100+ e-mail shoppers and shave hours off your QA course of, with Litmus e-mail testing. Study extra.
Allie Sperry
Allie Sperry is a Product Help Lead at Litmus.