Broken pages, redirects, sitemaps, and internal linking structure.
23 issuesbelow — sorted by severity, with the critical and high-severity ones first because they're what you should fix this week. Each entry links to a single page with the symptom, the root cause, the actual code or config change to ship, and a free scan that checks if the issue applies to your site right now.
Broken pages occur when URLs return 4xx HTTP status codes (such as 404 Not Found or 410 Gone). These errors indicate that the requested content is unavailable,
Orphaned pages are web pages that exist on your site but are not linked to from any other internal page. This makes them difficult for both users and search eng
Pages timed out during crawling — the server either took too long to respond or returned HTTP 408. Crawlers and users experience these as broken pages.
Redirect loops occur when two or more URLs redirect to each other in a cycle, preventing users and search engines from ever reaching the intended destination pa
Server error pages (5xx) occur when a web server fails to fulfill a request due to internal problems. These errors prevent users and search engines from accessi
This issue occurs when URLs included in your XML sitemap are also blocked by your site's robots.txt file. This creates conflicting instructions for search engin
Sitemap XML is invalid or has an incorrect root element, preventing search engines from parsing it.
Icon-only buttons without accessible labels are invisible to screen readers and fail WCAG 2.1 accessibility standards.
When important pages are more than four clicks away from the homepage, they become less accessible to both users and search engines. This deep nesting reduces c
Crawled indexable pages are missing from your XML sitemap, meaning search engines may not discover them as quickly as possible. This issue occurs when some page
Some internal links point to pages returning 4xx or 5xx errors, leading users and crawlers to broken destinations.
Internal links point to URLs that redirect instead of linking directly to the final destination.
JavaScript-based redirects were detected on 3 pages using inline scripts like window.location.href or window.location.replace.
This page contains over 100 outgoing external links, which can harm SEO and user experience.
Pages with weak internal link support are those that receive only a single internal link from other pages within the site. This limits their ability to accumula
Redirect chains occur when a URL redirects through one or more intermediate URLs before reaching its final destination. This process increases page load times a
One or more external links on your site return errors (e.g., HTTP 404), resulting in broken outbound links.
Pages link to #fragment targets that do not exist on the destination page, breaking table-of-contents and deep-link navigation.
Generic anchor text like "click here" offers no context for users or search engines, harming SEO and accessibility.
When important pages on your site are linked internally with many different anchor text variations (5 or more), it weakens the topical relevance signals sent to
Pages with too few internal links are considered 'shallow' because they provide limited pathways for both users and search engines to discover related content.
"Restricted Pages Found" refers to pages on your website that return 401 (Unauthorized) or 403 (Forbidden) HTTP status codes, yet are still accessible via inter
robots.txt contains syntax or encoding errors, such as invalid directives or BOM, which can disrupt crawler access rules.