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Broken JS

JavaScript files which return a broken page status code such as 404 or 501

Priority: Critical

Impact: Negative

What issues it may cause

Broken JavaScript files may result in errors in the website causing a poor user experience, and may affect the indexing of the page if the rendered content is not visible to Googlebot.

How do you fix it

Update the JavaScript link to a working JavaScript URL or remove the link.

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:

query GetReportStatForCrawl(
$crawlId: ObjectID!
$reportTemplateCode: String!
$after: String
) {
getReportStat(
input: {crawlId: $crawlId, reportTemplateCode: $reportTemplateCode}
) {
crawlUrls(after: $after, reportType: Basic) {
nodes {
url
foundAtUrl
level
httpStatusCode
disallowedPage
failedReason
js
fileExtension
foundInGoogleAnalytics
foundInGoogleSearchConsole
foundInBacklinks
foundInList
foundInLogSummary
foundInWebCrawl
foundInSitemap
}
totalCount
pageInfo {
endCursor
hasNextPage
}
}
}
}

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