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Disallowed CSS

CSS files which are disallowed in robots.txt

Priority: Critical

Impact: Neutral

What issues it may cause​

If the resources are disallowed in the robots.txt, the search engines may be unable to render the pages correctly.

How do you fix it​

The disallowed CSS resources should be reviewed using tools such as the Search Console Live URL Test or Mobile-Friendly Test to determine if the resources are required for the page to render correctly. If so, the robots.txt should be updated to allow the URLs to be fetched.

What is the positive impact​

Search engines will be able to render the pages correctly and process all the content and meta data so the pages can be indexed as expected.

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
            css
            robotsTxtRuleMatch
            foundInGoogleAnalytics
            foundInGoogleSearchConsole
            foundInBacklinks
            foundInList
            foundInLogSummary
            foundInWebCrawl
            foundInSitemap
          }
          totalCount
          pageInfo {
            endCursor
            hasNextPage
          }
        }
     }
   }

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