stale closed

info stale-closed Freshness

The page describes something that has ended. Lower stakes than a stale event, and still a page whose usefulness expired. Expired pages are worth keeping when they carry history, and worth removing when they only carry a promise that is no longer true. indexgap does not decide which — it reports the date it found and leaves the judgement to you, because the same expired page can be an archive on one site and a broken promise on another.

What indexgap reports

The finding reads:

info  stale-closed  the date … has passed and the page is already closed to indexing — that is correct

How to fix it

Decide what the page has become: an archive or a promise it can no longer keep. Mark an archive with its end date in the text itself, and take the promise out of the index.

How it behaves at scale

Collapsed when it fires template-wide. If it appears on 90% or more of the pages — or of one language version — of a site with at least 20 pages, it is a property of the template and is reported once, with the count, instead of once per page.

Finding it

pipx install indexgap
cd your-project
indexgap init
indexgap check

Then indexgap brief turns every finding on this page into a work order in indexgap-briefs/, with the thresholds the result has to satisfy and the command to check it.

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