Scan Settings

Scan Settings controls how Vesper Audit behaves during a crawl and how your name appears in exported reports. These settings are found in Settings > Scan settings and Settings > Report options.

Page load timeout

Page load timeout sets how long Vesper Audit waits for each page to finish loading before moving on. The default is 30 seconds.

Increase the timeout for sites that load slowly - JavaScript-heavy pages, sites with large images, or pages that fetch data before rendering. Decrease it to speed up crawls on fast-loading sites where slow pages are unlikely.

The timeout applies per page. If a page does not finish loading within the timeout, Vesper Audit logs a warning and continues to the next page rather than stalling the crawl.

Page load timeout is available on all plans including free.

Page budget

Page budget sets the crawl size at which Vesper Audit pauses to ask whether you want to continue. The default is 1,000 pages. The other options are 50, 100, 500, 5,000, and Unlimited.

When the crawl reaches the budget it pauses and opens a prompt showing how many pages have been scanned and how many URLs are still queued. If it has noticed repetitive URL patterns - a paginated archive, a calendar feed, a faceted filter - it lists them with a pre-checked box each, and Apply and continue excludes those patterns and prunes the queue before resuming. When there is no pattern common enough to be worth excluding, the prompt says so and does not offer to apply anything. Continue resumes with the queue untouched, and Stop and build report ends the crawl and writes the full report for the pages already scanned - that report opens by stating it is partial and how many URLs were never reached.

It is a checkpoint, not a cap. You can choose Continue at every pause and let the crawl run as long as you like, and Unlimited turns the checkpoint off entirely. The point is that a large site cannot quietly become a 10,000-page run before anyone notices the events calendar is generating 9,000 of them.

Page budget is available on all plans including free, and is saved as part of Scan Profiles so different clients can carry different defaults.

Viewport width

Supporter feature
Viewport width requires a Supporter license or active trial.

Viewport width sets the browser window width Vesper Audit uses when loading each page during a scan. The default is 1280px.

Common values:

Changing the viewport width affects which CSS is applied and which elements are visible during the scan. Some accessibility violations only appear at certain breakpoints - a navigation menu that becomes a hamburger button on mobile may have different landmark or keyboard focus issues than its desktop equivalent.

Viewport width is saved as part of Scan Profiles, so you can maintain separate mobile and desktop configurations for the same site.

Auditor name

Supporter feature
Auditor name requires a Supporter license or active trial.

Auditor name lets you add your name or agency name to every exported report. When set, it appears in:

Leave the field blank to omit your name from all outputs. The field is in Settings > Report options > Auditor name.

Vesper Audit attribution

The Show Vesper Audit attribution toggle in Report options controls whether the "Tool: Vesper Audit" credit appears in exported reports. It is on by default. When toggled off, the Vesper Audit attribution line is removed from all output formats - the PDF scope strip, Notion output, and Markdown header.

This is typically used alongside auditor name when delivering reports to clients under your own brand. Setting your name and turning off the Vesper attribution produces a report that carries your identity rather than the tool's.

Show Vesper Audit attribution requires a Supporter license or active trial.