# Check how often a company publishes blog posts

**Use case:** 

Posts per month, last publish date and trend for each company blog, from sitemaps and RSS feeds, to benchmark content output against competitors.

## Input

```json
{
  "urls": [
    "hubspot.com",
    "apify.com",
    "zapier.com"
  ],
  "onlyStatus": [],
  "maxSites": 10000
}
```

## Output

```json
{
  "domain": {
    "label": "Domain",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "status": {
    "label": "Status"
  },
  "lastPublished": {
    "label": "Last published",
    "format": "date"
  },
  "posts30d": {
    "label": "Last 30 days",
    "format": "number"
  },
  "posts90d": {
    "label": "Last 90 days",
    "format": "number"
  },
  "posts365d": {
    "label": "Last 12 months",
    "format": "number"
  },
  "trend": {
    "label": "Trend"
  },
  "contentSection": {
    "label": "Section"
  }
}
```

## How it works

### 1. Sign up on Apify or log in

The Content Velocity Tracker - Blog Publishing Cadence per Site Actor is ready to run with the inputs already set for "Check how often a company publishes blog posts". [Sign up or log in](https://console.apify.com/create-task-from-example/grLS4x46b60AWsq8G) and you'll land in Apify Console with a copy of this exact task.

### 2. Start the "Check how often a company publishes blog posts" task

The Content Velocity Tracker - Blog Publishing Cadence per Site Actor will start running based on the input automatically. You can also change all the input fields, like websites, only these statuses, and more, to match your specific use case.

### 3. Receive the "Check how often a company publishes blog posts" output

Monitor the progress in real time. You will be notified as soon as your dataset is complete and ready for review. Each result includes data such as domain, status, last published, and more.

### 4. Integrate into your workflow

The final output is delivered in JSON, CSV, or Excel format, ready to be plugged into your workflow. You can also [run the "Check how often a company publishes blog posts" task via API](https://apify.com/dennydevelops/content-velocity-tracker.md).

## FAQ

### How does it measure publishing cadence?

Content Velocity Tracker reads each site's sitemaps, or its RSS feed when sitemap dates are unreliable, and counts blog and news posts per month.

### What do the status labels mean?

Content Velocity Tracker marks each site active, slowing or went quiet, based on days since the last post and the 90-day trend against the prior nine months.

### Who uses content velocity data?

Content Velocity Tracker is used by content agencies, SEO teams and investors to find companies whose blog has stalled or is ramping up.

## About this Actor

This example demonstrates how to use [Content Velocity Tracker - Blog Publishing Cadence per Site](https://apify.com/dennydevelops/content-velocity-tracker.md) with a specific input configuration. Visit the [Actor detail page](https://apify.com/dennydevelops/content-velocity-tracker.md) to learn more, explore other use cases, and run it yourself.


## How to integrate an Actor?

This Task's input is already configured above. Use it as-is rather than inventing a new one.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For full API examples (JavaScript, Python, CLI, MCP, OpenAPI), see this Task's Actor page: https://apify.com/dennydevelops/content-velocity-tracker.md

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).