Max Description Length
All pages with a description tag exceeding the max length specified in Advanced settings > Report settings (default: 230).
Priority: Low
Impact: Negative
What issues it may cause
Descriptions over 230 characters may not be fully displayed in search engine results pages and will be truncated or rewritten into a snippet.
How do you fix it
Identify pages with long descriptions that can be shortened to allow them to be displayed in full in search engines results pages.
What is the positive impact
A well crafted description can increase click-through-rates and as result of it drive more visits and conversions to your website.
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
- Variables
- cURL
query GetReportForCrawl($crawlId: ObjectID!, $reportTemplateCode: String!) {
getCrawl(id: $crawlId) {
reportsByCode(
input: {
reportTypeCodes: Basic
reportTemplateCodes: [$reportTemplateCode]
}
) {
rows {
nodes {
... on CrawlUrls {
pageTitle
url
description
foundAtUrl
descriptionLength
deeprank
level
descriptionLengthPx
foundInGoogleAnalytics
foundInGoogleSearchConsole
foundInBacklinks
foundInList
foundInLogSummary
foundInWebCrawl
foundInSitemap
}
}
}
}
}
}
{"crawlId":"TjAwNUNyYXdsNDAwMA","reportTemplateCode":"max_description_length"}
curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "apollographql-client-name: docs-example-client" -H "apollographql-client-version: 1.0.0" -H "x-auth-token: YOUR_API_SESSION_TOKEN" --data '{"query":"query GetReportForCrawl($crawlId: ObjectID!, $reportTemplateCode: String!) { getCrawl(id: $crawlId) { reportsByCode( input: { reportTypeCodes: Basic reportTemplateCodes: [$reportTemplateCode] } ) { rows { nodes { ... on CrawlUrls { pageTitle url description foundAtUrl descriptionLength deeprank level descriptionLengthPx foundInGoogleAnalytics foundInGoogleSearchConsole foundInBacklinks foundInList foundInLogSummary foundInWebCrawl foundInSitemap } } } } } }","variables":{"crawlId":"TjAwNUNyYXdsNDAwMA","reportTemplateCode":"max_description_length"}}' https://api.lumar.io/graphql