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Internal Redirects Found In Web Crawl

All internal redirects which were found in the web crawl

Priority: Low

Impact: Negative

What issues it may cause​

It is poor practice for internally linked URLs on a website to redirect to a different URL as this can increase the load time for users and encourages search engines to crawl the redirecting URLs wasting crawl budget.

How do you fix it​

Find the affected links and update the href attributes to point to the final step of the redirect chain.

What is the positive impact​

  • The load time experienced by users should decrease resulting in a better user experience.

  • Crawl budget spent on crawling the redirecting URLs may be reduced, allowing the crawl budget to be used on more important pages, or save on server costs.

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

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