Everything you need to understand how AuditFresh works and how to get the most out of your web content freshness audit.
AuditFresh is a simple, lightweight tool that scans your website's published sitemap and sorts your pages by their last modified date. Most sites already have a sitemap for SEO purposes, and if you don't, it's absolutely worth creating one. A sitemap makes it easier for search engines to understand your site—and it also powers your website freshness check inside AuditFresh.
By using your sitemap, AuditFresh acts as an outdated content finder, helping you quickly spot pages that may be slipping into content decay or falling behind on relevance.
Fresh content matters more than most people realize. Google uses content age and update frequency as part of its ranking signals. If you want stronger visibility, better engagement, and happier visitors, keeping your content updated is key.
A regular content optimization audit helps you stay ahead of content decay, maintain relevance, and show search engines that your site is active and trustworthy. AuditFresh makes that process fast and painless.
If AuditFresh can't find your sitemap, it means it's not located in one of the standard locations we check. A sitemap is essential for both search engines and tools like AuditFresh—it tells Google when you've updated your site and helps us generate your content aging report.
If you're seeing this message, double‑check that your sitemap is properly configured and accessible.
This usually means your sitemap doesn't include a lastmod tag. Without that tag, search engines—and tools like AuditFresh—can't determine when a page was last updated. Missing lastmod data weakens your content freshness signals and makes it harder to run an accurate SEO content maintenance check.
Adding lastmod tags is a quick win for both SEO and content auditing.
Since AuditFresh is a free tool, there's a limit to how many URLs we can process at once. Right now, that limit is set to 1,000 pages to keep things running smoothly and cost‑effectively.
If you need a higher limit for a larger content audit, feel free to reach out—we can chat about options.
If something isn't working the way it should, I definitely want to know. Reach out via social media and share what went wrong. Your feedback—good or bad—helps make AuditFresh a better content audit tool for everyone.