Content Audit

A content audit is a qualitative evaluation of content against a set of defined criteria that measures content against business and user goals.

Content audits enable you to the following:

  • Assess whether the content supports business and user goals
  • Identify whether content consistently follow design, editorial, style and metadata guidelines
  • Establish a basis for analyzing the gap between the content you have the content you need
  • Identify content for revision, removal, and migration

A content audit answers the questions:

  • How do we define good content?
  • How can we test content against that definition?
  • What decisions can we make with the findings?
Source: Land, Paula Landberg. Content Audits and Inventories: A Handbook for Content Analysis. 2 edition. Denver, CO, USA: XML Press, May 2023.