Do you know the exact state of the content in your large Drupal site? Thinking of revamping, redesigning or upgrading your site? If you answered 'no!' to the first question or 'yes!' to the second question, it's time for content audit.
In this blog post, I cover the what, why, who, when, where and how's of content audits. I've conducted a few small content audits, and I'm leading a much bigger one, on Drupal.org.
What the heck is a content audit?
The idea behind a content inventory is to determine what content you have and where it lives (the quantitative survey). The content audit is qualitative, where you assess whether it's any good or not, and what needs to change to improve it.
Traditionally, content inventories are compiled manually, one page of your site at a time, in some sort of spreadsheet. The content inventory should also include PDFs, images, videos, and utility pages such as checkout and log in pages. Content should be inventoried regardless of whether it's hosted on your site or externally. If it's seen or heard within in your content, it needs to be held accountable.
Sites with 5000+ nodes could be auditing using a sampling of nodes that represent each content type, but what if you miss some glaring errors? In those instances, you could provide a small link to all site visitors who can flag the page as needing work (this can be done easily enough in Drupal, using a variety of approaches).
