Trends
The Trends tab turns Pulse’s repeated scans into a story over time. It’s where you tell whether your content quality is improving, drifting, or holding steady.
Where to find it
Section titled “Where to find it”- Global Dashboard → Trends tab - trend lines for the entire instance.
- Space Dashboard → Trends tab - the same chart scoped to one space.
What’s plotted
Section titled “What’s plotted”Each Trends view contains line charts of:
- Health Score - instance-wide (global view) or space-wide (space view) average over time.
- AI-Ready Score - same shape, for AI-Ready.
- Broken Links - total count of broken internal links across scans.
The x-axis is time; the y-axis is the average score (0-100) or the broken-link count.
How often the data points appear
Section titled “How often the data points appear”Each line is built from Pulse’s stored scan history:
| Scan source | Frequency |
|---|---|
| Weekly automatic scan | Once a week, instance-wide. |
| Page event re-scoring | Continuously, as pages are edited. (Recent edits show as score changes between weekly data points.) |
In practice this means you’ll see at least one data point per week, with finer-grained movement between them as your team edits pages.
Reading the chart
Section titled “Reading the chart”A few useful patterns:
- Slow upward drift over weeks - your team is improving the content, even if no one is doing it consciously. Often this is what good editorial discipline looks like.
- Sharp upward jump - usually corresponds to a content cleanup sprint or a project doc launching with strong structure.
- Flat lines - content is stable. Could be good (already healthy) or bad (nothing changing in a stale space).
- Downward drift - pages are being created faster than they’re being maintained, or older pages are aging out of the Freshness band.
- Broken-link spikes - a page or set of pages was deleted, leaving many internal references dangling.
The trend chart is the cleanest signal for whether your content investment is working over a quarter.
Trend deltas in the header
Section titled “Trend deltas in the header”Each Space Dashboard header includes inline trend deltas - small ↑ or ↓ indicators next to the Health and AI-Ready cards showing how those averages have shifted since the previous scan. These let you tell at-a-glance whether the space is moving up or down without having to click into Trends.
Practical uses
Section titled “Practical uses”- At a quarterly knowledge-management review - paste a screenshot of the global Trends chart into your retro doc.
- When a content team wants to prove impact - point at the upward-moving line for the space they own.
- When debugging a sudden drop in AI assistant quality - check the AI-Ready trend; an underlying source-material drop is often the cause.
Limits
Section titled “Limits”- Pulse can only chart sprints/weeks since it was installed - historical content before install isn’t reconstructed.
- The chart uses average across pages, so adding many small/new pages can drag the average down temporarily even if existing pages haven’t worsened.
- Content Health Score - what the line is averaging.
- Custom Policies - change the rules driving the score and watch the trend shift accordingly.