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Broken Sitemap Links

Broken pages which were found in the sitemaps included in the crawl.

Priority: Medium

Impact: Negative

What issues it may cause

Search engines are encouraged to crawl the broken pages which may waste crawl budget and incur additional server costs.

How do you fix it

Remove the broken pages from sitemap.

What is the positive impact

The broken pages are less likely to be crawled which positively impacts crawl budget and saves on server costs.

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:

query GetReportForCrawl($crawlId: ObjectID!, $reportTemplateCode: String!) {
getCrawl(id: $crawlId) {
reportsByCode(
input: {
reportTypeCodes: Basic
reportTemplateCodes: [$reportTemplateCode]
}
) {
rows {
nodes {
... on CrawlLinks {
urlToTitle
urlTo
urlFrom
urlToDeeprank
urlFromDeeprank
linkType
internal
attrRel
attrType
hreflang
}
}
}
}
}
}

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