Sanity is a powerful structured content platform with real-time collaboration, but as a Content Lake API it has no built-in WCAG accessibility audit, no Core Web Vitals scoring, and no front-end health monitoring. PageGuard audits the live front-end of any Sanity-powered site externally — free, no API tokens required, results in 30 seconds.
ADA Title II Deadline: April 24, 2026
State and local government websites must meet WCAG 2.1 AA by April 24, 2026. Many government and nonprofit organizations build public-facing sites on Sanity with Next.js or SvelteKit front-ends. Sanity’s Portable Text delivers rich content correctly — but accessibility of the final rendered HTML depends entirely on how your front-end application renders documents, whether alt text is provided in Sanity Studio for media, and how interactive components handle keyboard navigation. PageGuard audits your published front-end and alerts you to WCAG violations before the deadline.
| Feature | PageGuard | Sanity |
|---|---|---|
| What is it? | External website health monitor — scans any URL for performance, accessibility, SEO, and best practices | Flexible real-time headless CMS — structured content platform with GROQ query language, Portable Text, real-time collaborative editing in Sanity Studio, and 50K+ GitHub stars |
| Free tier | Yes — unlimited one-off scans, no signup required | Yes — Sanity Free plan includes 2 users, 10K API CDN requests/mo, and 5GB assets; paid plans from $15/mo |
| Accessibility audit (WCAG / ADA) | ✓ Yes — WCAG 2.1 AA scored 0–100 with specific issue list | No — Sanity is a structured content platform; accessibility of the rendered front-end depends entirely on how the consuming application renders Portable Text and Sanity documents |
| Technical SEO audit | ✓ Yes — meta tags, headings, canonical, structured data | No — Sanity delivers raw structured content via its Content Lake API; SEO quality of the rendered pages is determined by the front-end application, not Sanity |
| Performance audit (Core Web Vitals) | ✓ Yes — LCP, CLS, FCP scored 0–100 per scan | No — Sanity serves content from its CDN, but Core Web Vitals depend entirely on how the front-end application renders and hosts that content |
| Real-time collaborative editing | No — PageGuard is a monitoring tool, not a content management system | ✓ Yes — real-time collaborative editing in Sanity Studio with presence indicators, conflict-free document editing, and portable text block editor |
| Customizable content studio | No — PageGuard monitors deployed sites, it does not manage or deliver content | ✓ Yes — Sanity Studio is a fully customizable React application; developers extend it with custom input components, dashboards, and document actions |
| Automated website monitoring | ✓ Yes — weekly or daily scans with email alerts on score drop | No — Sanity has no built-in health monitoring or accessibility regression alerts for deployed front-end sites |
| AI-generated plain-English report | ✓ Yes — explains issues in non-technical language | No — no AI health report for rendered front-end quality |
| ADA Title II compliance monitoring | ✓ Yes — WCAG audit + alert on accessibility regression | No — Sanity delivers structured content but does not audit the accessibility of the rendered HTML output |
| Works on any platform | ✓ Yes — scans any URL on any front-end or platform | No — Sanity is a back-end content platform; it does not scan or audit front-end sites |
| Independent external audit | ✓ Yes — third-party scan, shareable URL for clients/stakeholders | No — no built-in tool to generate a shareable external health report for the live front-end site |
| Instant on-demand scan | ✓ Yes — results in 30 seconds, no code changes needed | No — no on-demand health scan; requires external tools to audit the front-end that consumes Sanity content |
| Multi-site dashboard | ✓ Yes — 1–50 sites depending on plan | Sanity manages content projects, not a multi-site health monitoring dashboard |
| Pricing for health monitoring | ✓ Free + from $9/mo for automated monitoring | Health monitoring not available — Sanity is a headless CMS, not a front-end monitoring tool |
Get the WCAG accessibility score and Core Web Vitals that Sanity doesn’t provide for rendered front-end pages. Results in 30 seconds. No Sanity project ID, API token, or code changes required.
Results in ~30 seconds. 4 scores: Performance, Accessibility, SEO, Best Practices.
Yes — PageGuard scans the live front-end of any site powered by Sanity. Enter the public URL of your deployed front-end (Next.js, SvelteKit, Remix, Astro, or any other framework consuming Sanity’s Content Lake via GROQ) and receive a full health report in ~30 seconds covering Core Web Vitals, WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility, technical SEO, and best practices. No Sanity project ID, API token, or admin access is required.
No — Sanity is a structured content platform that stores and delivers JSON documents. It has no built-in WCAG or ADA compliance auditing because it does not render the final front-end HTML. Accessibility quality depends on how your front-end application renders Portable Text blocks, whether image alt text is filled in Sanity Studio, and how your components handle keyboard navigation and ARIA attributes. PageGuard audits your deployed front-end and gives you a concrete WCAG 2.1 AA score with specific issues to fix.
Sanity manages the content layer: structured documents, real-time collaboration in Studio, Portable Text, and GROQ-powered API delivery. PageGuard audits the presentation layer: (1) WCAG/ADA accessibility of the rendered HTML output, (2) Core Web Vitals performance of the deployed front-end, (3) technical SEO quality including meta tags and structured data on live pages, and (4) automated monitoring with email alerts when content or component updates introduce regressions — from $9/mo.
No — they are complementary. Sanity is your structured content management and API delivery platform with its powerful GROQ query language and customizable Studio. PageGuard is an external health monitoring tool for your deployed front-end. Teams building with Sanity and Next.js, SvelteKit, or Remix should use both: Sanity to manage and serve content, PageGuard to verify the published output meets accessibility compliance and performance standards.