# Double Encoded URLs

**Priority**: Low

**Impact**: Negative

## What issues it may cause

Search engines will index double encoded URLs, however there may be instances where the same page is found with single encoding resulting in duplicate content issues and wasted crawl budget.

## How do you fix it

Identify if the URLs are created by malformed encoding of internal links in which case the links to the URL should be corrected to use single encoding.

## What is the positive impact

<ul>
  <li>Search engines may index multiple copies of the same page resulting in dilution of authority.</li>
  <li>Crawling resources may be wasted which could impact the discovery of other URLs</li>
  <li>Search engines may not select the preferred URL format.</li>
</ul>

## 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:


```graphql
query GetReportStatForCrawl(
      $crawlId: ObjectID!
      $reportTemplateCode: String!
      $after: String
     ) {
        getReportStat(
          input: {crawlId: $crawlId, reportTemplateCode: $reportTemplateCode}
        ) {
          crawlUrls(after: $after, reportType: Basic) {
            nodes {
              pageTitle
              url
              description
              foundAtUrl
              deeprank
              level
              urlDoubleEncoded
              httpStatusCode
              foundInGoogleAnalytics
              foundInGoogleSearchConsole
              foundInBacklinks
              foundInList
              foundInLogSummary
              foundInWebCrawl
              foundInSitemap
            }
            totalCount
            pageInfo {
              endCursor
              hasNextPage
            }
          }
       }
     }
```

**Variables:**
```json
{"crawlId":"TjAwNUNyYXdsNDAwMA","reportTemplateCode":"double_encoded_urls"}
```