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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:

Operation: query GetReportStatForCrawl( $crawlId: ObjectID! $reportTemplateCode: String! $after: String ) { getReportStat( input: {crawlId: $crawlId, reportTemplateCode: $reportTemplateCode} ) { crawlLinks(after: $after, reportType: Basic) { nodes { urlToTitle urlTo relUrlFrom urlFrom urlToDeeprank attrRel hreflang internal linkType } totalCount pageInfo { endCursor hasNextPage } } } }Variables: {"crawlId":"TjAwNUNyYXdsNDAwMA","reportTemplateCode":"broken_sitemap_links"}
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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 {
            urlToTitle
            urlTo
            relUrlFrom
            urlFrom
            urlToDeeprank
            attrRel
            hreflang
            internal
            linkType
          }
          totalCount
          pageInfo {
            endCursor
            hasNextPage
          }
        }
     }
   }