What checks are available in Prepublish checks?

Modified on: Tue, 28 Jul, 2026 at 7:07 PM

Answer

The checks available depend on the Siteimprove features within your subscription, your CMS software, and the Integration that utilizes the Prepublish feature. Generally, Prepublish checks are available across four categories: Quality Assurance, Accessibility, Policy, and SEO. These checks help identify content quality issues, accessibility concerns, policy violations, and SEO opportunities before content is published.

Overview

The checks available depend on the Siteimprove features within your subscription, your CMS software, and the Integration that utilizes the Prepublish feature.

Generally, the following checks are available.

Quality Assurance

Available checks

Misspellings
Potential Misspellings
Language Detection
Readability
Email Addresses
Link Text
Meta Tags
Trademarks

Accessibility

We provide our full suite of page-level checks at the Prepublish stage.

See: A Guide to the Siteimprove accessibility checks.

Policy

You can include any "Content" policies in your Prepublish checks, as long as the policies are marked in the Siteimprove Platform as:

Enabled for all sites within the Siteimprove platform
Shared
Checked to display in the CMS plugin.

Note: The "High priority" designation is no longer required for policies to appear in the CMS plugin’s Prepublish and Live views. Also, "Media" and "Document" policies are not supported at this time.

SEO

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."

SEO Technical Issues

HTML validation errors
Missing structured data markup
Missing Open Graph tags
Page-level nofollow tags
Pages with noindex metatag
Pages with frames or iFrames

SEO Content Issues

Pages with low text-to-code ratio
Empty meta descriptions
Missing meta descriptions
Pages with multiple meta descriptions
Meta descriptions are too short
Meta descriptions are too long
Empty meta titles
Pages with multiple meta titles
Meta titles are too long
Meta titles are too short
Missing H1 tags
Empty H1 tags
Pages with multiple H1 headers
Low content word count

SEO User Experience Issues

Images missing alt attributes

Key Takeaways

Available checks vary based on your subscription, CMS software, and integration.
Quality Assurance checks help improve content accuracy and readability.
Accessibility checks provide Siteimprove's full suite of page-level accessibility reviews.
Content policies can be included when configured appropriately in the Siteimprove Platform.
SEO checks cover technical, content, and user experience issues.
SEO checks in the New plugin experience are currently available in Beta.

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