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External Broken Links

All instances of external links where the target URL return a broken status code (400, 404, 410, 500, or 501).

Priority: Low

Impact: Negative

What issues it may cause​

Users who visit the external links will land on a broken page resulting in a poor user experience.

How do you fix it​

Update the links to point to working URLs, or remove them.

What is the positive impact​

Users will have an improved user-experience which can help to build brand recognition and increased click-through rates from search engine results pages.

How to fetch the data for this report template​

You will need to run a crawl for report template to generate report. When report has been generated and you have crawl id you can fetch data for the report using the following query:

Operation: query GetReportStatForCrawl( $crawlId: ObjectID! $reportTemplateCode: String! $after: String ) { getReportStat( input: {crawlId: $crawlId, reportTemplateCode: $reportTemplateCode} ) { crawlLinks(after: $after, reportType: Basic) { nodes { urlTo urlToTitle anchorText urlFrom urlFromTitle urlToDeeprank urlFromDeeprank urlToStatusCode urlToDeeprank urlFromStatusCode urlFromDeeprank } totalCount pageInfo { endCursor hasNextPage } } } }Variables: {"crawlId":"TjAwNUNyYXdsNDAwMA","reportTemplateCode":"broken_links_external"}
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GraphQL
query GetReportStatForCrawl(
    $crawlId: ObjectID!
    $reportTemplateCode: String!
    $after: String
   ) {
      getReportStat(
        input: {crawlId: $crawlId, reportTemplateCode: $reportTemplateCode}
      ) {
        crawlLinks(after: $after, reportType: Basic) {
          nodes {
            urlTo
            urlToTitle
            anchorText
            urlFrom
            urlFromTitle
            urlToDeeprank
            urlFromDeeprank
            urlToStatusCode
            urlToDeeprank
            urlFromStatusCode
            urlFromDeeprank
          }
          totalCount
          pageInfo {
            endCursor
            hasNextPage
          }
        }
     }
   }