Content
Improve your content across every page and document
Silktide brings a catalog of content quality, link, and fault checks into one visual workspace. Find spelling, grammar, readability, broken-link, and missing-asset issues so your team knows what needs attention.
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Complete editorial quality control for modern web teams. Set your style, complexity, and rules, then watch them improve over time.
Silktide continuously monitors every web page and hosted PDF, surfacing where copy falls short and giving your writers on-page tools to fix issues fast.
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1. Define
Establish your editorial benchmark, from basic spelling and link health to target reading ages, custom style rules, on-page SEO, and AEO readiness.
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2. Fix
Silktide highlights issues directly over your live web pages, ordered by impact and ready to assign to the right person.
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3. Measure
Retest individual pages after making changes to verify fixes and update your scores. Track progress over time and review the decisions your team has made.
Fix issues where they appear
The Visual Inspector overlays spelling, grammar, and readability findings directly onto your live web pages. Your editors see what needs attention in context, with evidence to guide the fix. The catalog also flags AI artifacts, placeholder text, and concentrations of AI clichés for editorial review.
Verify edits after you publish
Retest an individual URL after saving a fix. Confirm the result and update your score once testing verifies the change.
Continuous content monitoring built for modern web teams.
Clear priorities
Clear priorities from complex scan data. Silktide’s AI optimizer uses your scan data to write a custom strategy report detailing where you stand, what changed, and your exact to-dos based on severity and ease of use.
Assign tasks straight to your existing team tools
Send accepted tasks with supporting evidence to Jira or Linear, or manage them in Silktide. Use Slack, Microsoft Teams, or email for notifications.
Content governance
Complete governance for all your content. Check links inside PDFs alongside links on your web pages.
Bring discovered PDFs into a shared library, with accessibility testing across 136 PDF/UA-1 conditions, including 87 checked automatically.
Built for search and AI engines
Use SEO and AI readiness checks to review signals such as titles, canonicals, sitemaps, crawler access, structured data, content dates, and content available without JavaScript.
Automate your custom style
Draft plain-English rules to automatically flag retired product names, outdated messaging, or mandatory legal text across every department.
Solve systemic patterns
Group related findings to fix hundreds of flags at the source.
Readability
Language-calibrated readability, for every audience.
Measure readability using formulas suited to supported languages, with reading-age, CEFR, and education-tier views. Set a target for your audience, see how many pages exceed it, and export the results to CSV.
Native multi-language resolution
Check text against the detected page language and supported regional dictionaries. Correct language settings or add URL-level overrides when needed. Spelling, grammar, and readability coverage varies by language.
Custom criteria and score ownership
Organize checks into named categories and adjust scoring weights to reflect your team’s priorities.
Check dates and outdated wording
Flag missing publication or modification dates on qualifying long-form pages. Create custom rules for retired product names or outdated wording across the pages Silktide discovers.
See better content in practice
How McMurry University raised content quality without adding headcount
McMurry University raised its content quality score from 33 to 90 without adding headcount. Its web manager used Silktide to identify and fix broken links, spelling and grammar errors, and oversized images across a 3,000-page website. Regular scans help him catch new issues as they appear.
It's like Big Brother watching you – but in a good way. It's helping our website be a better platform and a better way to navigate.
FAQs
What is Silktide Content?
Silktide Content is the Governance module that measures and tracks spelling, grammar, readability, broken links, images, and language.
Does Silktide check spelling and grammar?
Yes. Silktide reads the visible text on pages and documents and reports likely spelling and grammar problems. It uses dictionaries, your approved words, and AI to cut false positives, and checks against each page’s language.
Does Silktide find broken links?
Yes. Silktide tests links on web pages and inside PDFs, and reports missing pages, error responses, and sites that can’t be reached.
Does Silktide measure readability?
Yes. Silktide measures how hard page text is to read and shows it as a reading age, with CEFR and education-tier views of the same result.
Is Content included in Silktide?
Yes. Content is included with Governance. In Silktide 5, Content, Accessibility, User Experience, and Compliance ship together.
Who is Silktide Content for?
Silktide Content is for the central web and communications team accountable for a large digital presence, typically in government, higher education, finance, and healthcare.
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