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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:

Operation: query GetReportStatForCrawl( $crawlId: ObjectID! $reportTemplateCode: String! $after: String ) { getReportStat( input: {crawlId: $crawlId, reportTemplateCode: $reportTemplateCode} ) { crawlUrls(after: $after, reportType: Basic) { nodes { pageTitle url description foundAtUrl descriptionLength deeprank level descriptionLengthPx foundInGoogleAnalytics foundInGoogleSearchConsole foundInBacklinks foundInList foundInLogSummary foundInWebCrawl foundInSitemap } totalCount pageInfo { endCursor hasNextPage } } } }Variables: {"crawlId":"TjAwNUNyYXdsNDAwMA","reportTemplateCode":"max_description_length"}
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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
            descriptionLength
            deeprank
            level
            descriptionLengthPx
            foundInGoogleAnalytics
            foundInGoogleSearchConsole
            foundInBacklinks
            foundInList
            foundInLogSummary
            foundInWebCrawl
            foundInSitemap
          }
          totalCount
          pageInfo {
            endCursor
            hasNextPage
          }
        }
     }
   }