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memoQ QA isn’t enough: what to add
memoQ QA checks segments inside your translation project, not the website or app those segments end up in. To catch overflow, layout and context bugs in the live product, add a rendered-product QA tool such as Loqalit next to memoQ QA. Keep memoQ QA for what it does well; Loqalit adds the layer it can’t see.
Updated October 2026
What does memoQ QA check?
memoQ’s automated QA runs more than a hundred checks on segments: terminology and consistency, numbers, punctuation, whitespace and capitalization, inline tags, spelling and grammar, and segment length in characters or pixels. Its LQA feature adds structured human review, with error categories, severity levels and penalty points.
What does memoQ QA miss?
memoQ checks each segment against its source, its termbase and your rules, before the text is built into the product. It can’t see what happens after rendering: text that overflows despite passing a length check, truncation at a specific viewport, layout overlap, RTL mirroring errors, a translation that is correct as a segment but wrong for the element it labels, or hardcoded strings that were never in the memoQ project.
File QA tools like Xbench check the translation file. TMS QA checks strings against rules. Loqalit checks what your users actually see.
memoQ QA vs rendered-product QA
Error type | memoQ QA | Loqalit |
|---|---|---|
Terminology and consistency | Yes | Yes |
Placeholder and number mismatches | Yes | Yes |
Inline tags well-formed in the file | Yes | No (checks rendered text, not file markup) |
Length limits | Yes, characters or pixels | Detects actual overflow on the page |
Text overflow and truncation in the rendered UI | Partial (pixel-length estimate) | Yes |
Layout breaks and RTL mirroring | No | Yes |
Context-wrong but segment-correct translations | No | Yes |
Hardcoded strings outside the memoQ project | No | Yes |
Severity scoring | Yes, human LQA models | MQM severity on every finding |
Scheduled checks of the live site | No | Yes |
What should you add to memoQ QA?
Add rendered-product QA. Loqalit is an agentic localization QA platform that checks your live and staging websites and web apps in every language you ship. It catches translation, context and layout bugs in the rendered product, scores them with MQM, and routes fixes into Crowdin or Phrase. Scans run on a schedule without anyone logged in. Every finding comes with a screenshot, a reason and an MQM severity, and nothing changes until a person accepts the fix.
How do memoQ, Xbench and Loqalit work together?
During translation: memoQ QA checks segments as linguists work.
Before delivery: Xbench (optional) gives a second file-level pass across the bilingual files.
After deployment: Loqalit checks the staging or live site in every language, on a schedule.
Fixes: Loqalit has no native memoQ integration. You can export findings (CSV, XLSX, PDF or JSON) or connect through signed webhooks and the REST API, and apply the fixes in memoQ.
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Frequently asked questions
Is memoQ QA enough for a website?
Not for the rendered website. memoQ QA checks segments inside the translation project, but it doesn’t check the live pages, so overflow, layout and context bugs need rendered-product QA.
Does memoQ’s pixel-length check catch overflow?
Partly. It checks whether a segment fits a pixel limit you set, but it doesn’t see the rendered page: the real container, viewport and neighbouring elements. A segment can pass the check and still overflow on the live site.
Does Loqalit replace memoQ or Xbench?
No. memoQ and Xbench check translation files and segments; Loqalit checks the rendered product. Most teams use them together.
Does Loqalit integrate with memoQ?
Loqalit has no native memoQ integration. You can export findings (CSV, XLSX, PDF or JSON) or connect through signed webhooks and the REST API, and apply the fixes in memoQ.
Can I try Loqalit on my own site?
Yes. You can run one scan as a guest before creating an account.