Every website accumulates a bit of debris over time — a test page, an old campaign, a draft nobody got round to removing. None of it was put there on purpose to stay. Here's how to find out what's quietly still live.
It's rarely one big mistake. It's small, reasonable decisions — "leave it for now" — that nobody circles back to.
A page built to preview something, then left live once the job was done.
A landing page for an offer, event or promotion that ended a while ago.
"Lorem ipsum" or "coming soon" copy that was meant to be temporary.
An old PDF — a price list, brochure or policy — that's out of date but still linked somewhere.
A visitor finds it before you do. An old staff page, a discontinued price list, or a "coming soon" page from two years ago — found by a customer, not caught internally.
It undermines the parts of the site that are current. One clearly abandoned page next to a well-maintained one raises the question of which to trust.
It's invisible from the inside. Nobody deliberately leaves debris live — it's just genuinely hard to remember everything that's ever been published on a website.
This is one of the six areas covered in a full WebTality audit. Here's specifically what the housekeeping check looks at.
Pages that look like they were built for internal review or testing, not for a visitor to land on.
Text or sections that read as unfinished — filler copy, "coming soon" notices, empty galleries.
Confirms your linked social profiles actually go somewhere — and somewhere current.
How old the documents linked from your site are, so outdated brochures and policies don't hide in plain sight.
No. WebTality only reads and reports — it never edits, deletes or publishes anything. What to do with what it finds is entirely your call.
It doesn't guess intent — it surfaces signals like placeholder text, very old last-updated dates, or pages with no internal links pointing to them, so you can decide which ones genuinely need attention.
The free snapshot gives you a headline count of debris and placeholder pages found. The full report (£49) names each one individually, up to 150 pages of your site.
Run the free snapshot — no card, no commitment, just a plain-English answer.
Check my website — free →This is one of six areas WebTality checks — see the full overview or what's in the paid report.