PointFire Multilingual Audit

Find the gaps in your multilingual SharePoint

See what’s missing, outdated, or unavailable in each language.

The free PointFire Multilingual Audit checks your SharePoint sites for multilingual gaps across pages, documents, metadata, links, and language settings. Get measurable evidence of translation coverage, freshness, availability, and timeliness—with a prioritized list of what needs to be translated or updated.

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Example audit report

72/100
Overall score
Pages, documents & UI
A clearer view of every language.
Pages  ·  Documents  ·  User interface
Coverage
Are the translations there?
Freshness
Are the translations up to date?
Availability
Is the latest translation actually available to users?
Timeliness
How quickly do translations follow the source?
Metadata
Links
User profiles
Scored for pages, documents and UI, with additional checks for metadata, links, user profiles, and cleanup issues.

Find the pages, documents and UI that need attention.

Your SharePoint is multilingual. Are your employees getting the same information?

If your users suspect that what they see in their language is not the same as what their colleagues see in the original language, they won't use it.

Having a French version of a SharePoint page doesn't necessarily mean that French-speaking users are getting the same information at the same time.

You don’t know what’s missing.

Find pages, documents, and interface elements that still need translation.

Translations quietly fall behind.

See where the source has changed since the translation was last updated.

You need evidence for language compliance reviews.

Identify gaps and gather measurable findings for your next review.

Management needs a clearer picture.

Quantify your translation backlog and measure progress by running the audit again.

Untranslated interface text is hard to track down.

Locate missing translations across navigation, labels, and metadata.

Employees may not see content in their language.

Review language preferences and identify translations that exist but aren’t available to users.

The PointFire Multilingual Audit looks at these issues systematically and gives your SharePoint environment an objective multilingual score in each area.

Four measures that matter

For pages, documents and UI — four dimensions of multilingual coverage.

Required languages

Example of EN and DE content with a missing FR translation.

Coverage

Find missing translations across pages, documents and UI.

Latest source content

Example of a source at version 2 and a translation still at version 1, needing an update.

Freshness

See which translations no longer match the latest source content.

Published and visible

Example of a French translation awaiting approval and not yet published to users.

Availability

Check whether the latest translations are published, approved and visible to users.

Source to translation

A timeline showing the gap between earlier source publication and later translated publication.

Timeliness

Measure the time between publication of the source and its translation.

Audit more than pages

A multilingual SharePoint environment involves much more than page content. The Multilingual Audit evaluates all the factors that can affect the experience of users in different languages.

Documents

Find missing, outdated and unpublished document translations, including gaps in required languages.

User Interface

Identify untranslated UI elements, missing languages and labels that changed since they were translated.

Metadata

Check whether titles, descriptions, choice values, custom text fields and folder names are localized.

Links

Find internal and external links that lead to content in the wrong language.

Cleanup

Find translations awaiting publication or approval, orphaned pages and documents left behind after their originals were deleted, and content whose actual language doesn’t match its language label.

User Profiles

Review employees’ preferred language, locale, and time zone settings to understand how many are set up to receive content in their language.

Also identifies items translated into only some of the required languages.

See exactly what needs attention

A score by itself isn’t enough. For every category, the Multilingual Audit lists the individual items that need attention, so you know what to fix.

Example findings
Item
Language
Finding
Employee handbook
FR
Missing
Benefits page
DE
Outdated
Policy update
FR
Not published

Built with government regulations in mind

The Multilingual Audit is guided by the principles and requirements of different jurisdictions with official languages.

Canada and Quebec
Belgium
Wales
Switzerland
The EU
Spain
Luxembourg
Ireland
Finland
Cyprus
and other jurisdictions

But you don't have to be subject to regulations to use it.

Useful for any multilingual organization

The same problems occur wherever organizations publish content in multiple languages.

Site owners, SharePoint admins & internal communications

Find content gaps and help employees across regions get current, accessible information in their preferred language.

Auditors, compliance officers & executives

Gather evidence for language reviews, understand the scope of outstanding work, and track progress over time.

Consultants & project managers

Scope multilingual improvements for your organization or clients, prioritize the translation backlog, and measure results.

Whether your requirement comes from legislation, corporate policy, accessibility goals, or simply a commitment to providing an equal experience to users in different languages, the audit gives you a way to measure your current state and determine what needs to be done.

Start with a free audit

The tool works entirely within your tenant, and data access is read-only. No one but you has access to this information. You don't need to install a translation system or commit to a translation service.

The audit provides a simple way to understand where your SharePoint environment stands. More importantly, the audit lets you track improvement over time. Run the audit again after addressing your translation backlog and see whether your scores improve.

Your SharePoint tenant

SharePoint

Content & UI

Multilingual
Audit

Read-only

No information leaves your site.

Discover what your users see—and what they're missing.

The PointFire Multilingual Audit analyzes your existing SharePoint multilingual environment and shows you where the gaps are.

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