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Error Pages in Sitemaps

Priority: Low

Impact: Negative

What issues it may causeโ€‹

Search engines are encouraged to crawl the broken pages which may waste crawl budget and incur additional server costs.

How do you fix itโ€‹

Remove the broken pages from sitemap.

What is the positive impactโ€‹

Fewer non-200 status code pages will be crawled which positively impacts crawl budget and saves on server costs.

How to fetch the data for this report templateโ€‹

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 GetReportForCrawl($crawlId: ObjectID!, $reportTemplateCode: String!) {
getCrawl(id: $crawlId) {
reportsByCode(
input: {
reportTypeCodes: Basic
reportTemplateCodes: [$reportTemplateCode]
}
) {
rows {
nodes {
... on CrawlUrls {
pageTitle
url
foundAtUrl
foundAtSitemap
deeprank
level
sitemapsInCount
httpStatusCode
indexable
duplicatePage
foundInGoogleAnalytics
foundInGoogleSearchConsole
foundInBacklinks
foundInList
foundInLogSummary
foundInWebCrawl
foundInSitemap
}
}
}
}
}
}

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