What are the key features of Prepublish?

Modified on: Tue, 28 Jul, 2026 at 6:31 PM

Answer

Siteimprove Prepublish helps improve content quality before publication through automated accessibility checks, on-page SEO diagnostics, customizable company policies, and instant quality checks. These features help content creators identify and resolve issues early, ensuring content aligns with accessibility standards, SEO best practices, organizational policies, and overall quality expectations before publication.

Overview

Siteimprove Prepublish provides a set of quality assurance features that help organizations review content before it is published. These capabilities support accessibility, search engine optimization, company policy compliance, and overall content quality, enabling teams to publish with greater confidence.

Key Features

Automated accessibility checks

Siteimprove Prepublish gives you instant insights into accessibility issues and actionable recommendations to ensure your content is in line with accessibility guidelines and regulations.

On-page SEO diagnostics

Siteimprove Prepublish pinpoints where you can fine-tune your content with best practice recommendations to pave the way for SEO success.

Note: SEO checks are only available in the "Old plugin experience" and are in Beta mode within the "New plugin experience," but you can submit a ticket with the Customer Support Team to request access to these checks in Beta mode in the "New plugin experience."

Customizable company policies

Easily adhere to branding, style, legal, and regulatory requirements with policies tailored to your organization. Our Prepublish functionalities highlight any violations of your brand guidelines across content, utilizing policies you have configured to display in Prepublish.

Note: To display in Prepublish, "Content" policies need to be marked as enabled for all sites, Shared and CMS plugin in the Siteimprove platform and "Media" and "Document policy types are currently not supported in the CMS plugin or Prepublish checks.

Instant quality checks

Create a smooth experience for your visitors and strengthen your credibility with high content quality. Siteimprove Prepublish gives you an immediate overview of errors, making them visible and easy to fix, so your team can confidently publish error-free content.

Feature Summary

Prepublish includes the following capabilities:

Automated accessibility checks
On-page SEO diagnostics
Customizable company policies
Instant quality checks

Important Considerations

SEO checks are only available in the Old plugin experience and are currently in Beta for the New plugin experience.
Access to SEO checks in the New plugin experience can be requested through Customer Support.
Content policies must be enabled appropriately in the Siteimprove platform to display in Prepublish.
Media and Document policy types are not currently supported in CMS plugin or Prepublish checks.

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