# Pages with Repeated Paths

**Priority**: Critical

**Impact**: Negative

## What issues it may cause

<ul>
  <li>
    Google may not index a URL with the same path repeated 3 or more times as it matches the pattern of a malformed URL
    resulting in an infinite spider trap.
  </li>
  <li>
    A significant number of malformed URLs may waste crawl budget or cause indexing issues of the pages are duplicated
    and not corrected by a canonical tag.
  </li>
</ul>

## How do you fix it

<ul>
  <li>
    Identify if the URL is created by malformed internal links in which case the links to the URL should be corrected.
  </li>
  <li>Otherwise the URL format may need to be modified to prevent the same path being repeated.</li>
</ul>

## What is the positive impact

The URLs are likely to be duplicates and may be crawled Search Engines wasting crawl budget and causing indexing issues.

## 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
              urlContainsRepeatedPaths
              httpStatusCode
              foundInGoogleAnalytics
              foundInGoogleSearchConsole
              foundInBacklinks
              foundInList
              foundInLogSummary
              foundInWebCrawl
              foundInSitemap
            }
            totalCount
            pageInfo {
              endCursor
              hasNextPage
            }
          }
       }
     }
```

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