Outdated content monitoring
LinkSweep flags content that has quietly gone stale — a copyright notice more than a year behind, a date that has already passed, and pages not touched in over a year. These are the small signals that make a site look abandoned, and they're invisible to uptime and status monitors because the page still loads perfectly. LinkSweep surfaces them on every scan so you can keep the site current.
Nothing erodes trust like a footer that still says last year, or an offer that expired months ago. On a large or multilingual site these slip through easily. LinkSweep watches for them across every page so you don't have to.
What it catches
- Outdated copyright years — a footer notice more than a year behind the current year
- Dates that have passed — event dates, "valid until" and similar dates now in the past
- Stale pages — pages whose last-modified date is over a year old
- Missing references — "read more" and other action links that lead nowhere
Related: broken links, redirect chains, and accessibility. See everything on the features page.
Frequently asked questions
How does LinkSweep decide a page is stale?
It uses the page's last-modified signal: if a page hasn't been updated in more than a year, it's flagged so you can review whether the content is still accurate.
What outdated-content issues does it flag?
Copyright notices more than a year out of date, dates that have already passed, and pages not updated in over a year — plus action links like "read more" that point nowhere.
Won't version numbers and prices trigger false positives?
The date detection suppresses patterns that look like versions, prices or IDs rather than real dates, so it focuses on genuine stale-date signals instead of every number on the page.
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