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Rendered Canonical Link Mismatch

All pages found with URL in canonical tag in the rendered DOM not matching the canonical tag URL in the raw HTML source.

Priority: Low

Impact: Negative

What issues it may cause​

If the canonical URL found in the static HTML is different to the canonical URL in the rendered HTML the search engines may ignore them both.

If the search engines have problems rendering the pages correctly they may not be able to see the rendered HTML canonical URL.

How do you fix it​

Serve a consistent canonical URL on the static HTML and rendered HTML, or only serve the canonical in the rendered HTML.

What is the positive impact​

Search engines will be able to process the canonical signal correctly, potentially reducing indexing issues.

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 {
            pageTitle
            url
            canonicalUrl
            foundAtUrl
            deeprank
            level
            renderedCanonicalLinkMatch
            renderedWordCountDifference
            renderedLinkCountDifference
            foundInWebCrawl
            foundInSitemap
            foundInGoogleSearchConsole
            foundInGoogleAnalytics
            foundInBacklinks
            foundInLogSummary
            foundInList
          }
          totalCount
          pageInfo {
            endCursor
            hasNextPage
          }
        }
     }
   }

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