Content maintenance
You should plan regular content audits and maintenance into your team's workflow once your content is published.
Governance and ownership
- Assign page owners for each section.
- Document workflows for content updates and approvals.
- Maintain backups - for example document files or recent changes to web content.
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Content accuracy and relevance
- Review and update service information periodically.
- Remove outdated announcements, events or notices.
- Verify contact details and office hours.
Technical checks
- Fix broken links and outdated downloads.
- Test forms and online service portals.
- Ensure links to external services, like NHS or GOV.UK, are current.
Compliance and accessibility
- Ensure WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility standards are met - this ensures it. can be used with assistive technologies, like keyboard only navigation or screen readers.
- Include alt text for all informative or functional images.
- Ensure page formatting is readable and scannable, for example by using headings, lists and descriptive and meaningful hyperlinks.
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Scheduled reviews
- Set review dates for each page, like every 6 or 12 month.
- Prioritise statutory, high-traffic or critical service pages for frequent checks - identify high traffic pages by requesting an analytics report.
- Use our inventory maintenance tool for list of pages under your ownership - go to the nottinghamshire.gov.uk content hub (Intranet) [council staff only].
Performance and optimisation
- Monitor page analytics, like, engagement, views or sessions
- Identify and improve underperforming pages.
- Optimise images and files for faster loading.
- Ensure mobile responsiveness across devices.
