Issue library · 7 content checks
Strengthen alignment, useful depth, readability, and decision support.
A useful page states its purpose early, answers the intended question with enough evidence, and organizes detail so readers can act. Word counts are diagnostic context, not ranking targets.
Pages underperform when their title, heading, opening, and body answer different questions or when useful information is buried in repetition and dense prose.
The title and primary heading share little topical language and may frame different intents.
Make both identify the same main topic while allowing natural wording differences.
Read the title and H1 together and confirm they promise the same page.
Very little main-content text was captured for the page’s apparent job.
Add the explanation, evidence, example, or next step the reader actually needs; do not add filler.
Repeat the task as a new visitor and confirm the page resolves it.
Very long paragraphs can hide steps, evidence, and decisions.
Split at real idea boundaries and introduce a useful heading or list where it improves scanning.
Read the page on a narrow screen and confirm each paragraph has one clear job.
Several sentences contain enough clauses to make the answer difficult to follow.
Separate independent ideas while preserving necessary nuance.
Read the revised sentence aloud and confirm the subject, action, and condition are clear.
Substantial paragraphs appear more than once on the same page.
Remove accidental template duplication or consolidate repeated explanation.
Search a distinctive sentence and confirm only intentional instances remain.
The first substantial paragraph is unusually short or long for an immediate explanation.
State the page’s answer or value early, then move qualifications and detail below.
Read only the heading and opening paragraph and confirm the page purpose is clear.
A substantial page has no captured list or table to support scanning or comparison.
Add a checklist, steps, comparison, or summary only where it makes a decision easier.
Confirm the reader aid contains useful information rather than repeating nearby prose.