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Check Your Content Freshness

Enter a domain. See every page's age, color-coded and scored.

Free. No signup. Works on any public sitemap.
Sample output

What you'll see in the report

A color-coded treemap of every page, grouped by section, with a Freshness Score (0–100) and plain-English findings.
Domain: example-saas.com
Pages scanned: 247
Freshness Score: 64 / 100
Missing dates: 23 (9%)
Distribution:
/docs has dropped to 34 — over a third of pages are older than 6 months.
/help pages are missing lastmod dates — check your CMS sitemap settings.
blog· 124
docs· 68
products· 32
help· 23
Each rectangle = one page. Color = content age. Click to visit.
SectionPagesScoreDistribution
blog12471
docs6834
products3282
help23—
Fresh (<30d)
Recent (30–90d)
Aging (91–180d)
Stale (181–365d)
Decaying (>365d)
Unknown
How it works

How does the content freshness checker work?

ACME.BOT reads the sitemap, extracts lastmod dates, and assigns each page a freshness bucket — fresh (under 30 days) to decaying (over 365).
Enter domain
example.com
Scan

Enter a domain

Just enter any domain — no need for the scheme; ACME.BOT'll find the sitemap itself via the robots.txt doc.

✓ sitemap.xml → 412 URLs
├─ /blog/content-strategy 2026-03-15
├─ /blog/seo-basics 2024-11-02
├─ /docs/getting-started 2023-06-18
└─ 409 more…

ACME.BOT extracts dates

Our scanner will navigate all of your sitemap indexes, get up to 5,000 URLs and pull each lastmod date.

Score: 64

Freshness mapped

Pages, grouped by section, are color-coded by age; each page received a score (0–100), along with plain-English findings.

Why freshness matters

Why does content freshness matter?

Freshness directly affects search rankings and AI citations. Pages not refreshed in 6–12 months lose roughly half their organic traffic.
76%
of AI-cited pages were updated within 30 days
+4.6
average ranking positions gained by refreshing yearly
20–40%
traffic drop in 8–12 weeks when content decays
Use cases

What do content teams do with freshness data?

Content refresh prioritization

Instead of sifting through a spreadsheet, surface 500 pages by staleness in a matter of seconds. The Freshness Score by section provides content managers with guidance on where to prioritize changes for the next week.

Competitor content gap analysis
Editorial calendar planning
Stakeholder reporting
Post-migration content audit
FAQ
Common questions
What is a content freshness checker?
How does the content freshness checker work?
What is a Freshness Score?
How does content freshness affect SEO and AI rankings?
Can I scan a competitor’s website?
What if a sitemap doesn’t have lastmod dates?
Is there a limit on how many pages the tool scans?
How is this different from Screaming Frog or Ahrefs?
What should I do with stale content?
How often should I check content freshness?
Does this work for JavaScript-rendered sites?
Can I track freshness over time?

Find stale content —
then fix it automatically

ACME.BOT's Content Refresh Engine detects decaying pages, generates refresh briefs, and publishes updates to your CMS — turning a one-time audit into a continuous loop.
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