Check library · Content and on-page

Content has not been updated in over 18 months

mediumcontent_staleneeds a decision

Why it matters

Freshness matters for queries where the answer changes, and stale pages decay.

What to do about it

Refresh the facts, dates and examples, then update the modified date.

This one is reported rather than applied. It needs a judgement a person has to make, and applying it automatically would be a change to your site that nobody decided on.

How it is weighted

These are the values the scoring actually uses, not a description of them. Priority is derived from all three rather than chosen, which is why a high-impact, low-effort finding surfaces above a severe one that would take a quarter to fix.

Severity
medium
Impact
45% of the weight this category can carry
Effort
50%, where 100% is a project rather than a change
Confidence
80% that a hit is a real problem rather than a pattern we misread
Area
Content and on-page

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