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Redirects with Visits

Pages with organic search traffic that redirect to another URL.

Priority: Low

Impact: Neutral

What issues it may cause​

These pages are redirecting, but have had visits based on the analytics data within the report period.

There could be a valid reason for setting up redirects for driving traffic pages e.g. when migrating to new URLs or domain. If this is the case and the redirects are set up correctly these pages should be re-indexed by search engines and disappear from this report over time. Please check if you used the correct HTTP status code for these redirects (e.g. 302 redirects are considered to be temporary, therefore it may take longer for Google to update these URLs in the index).

However if these redirects have been implemented unintentionally they could lead to a drop in traffic.

How do you fix it​

Investigate these pages to check that they are redirecting to relevant pages and are using the correct HTTP status code.

What is the positive impact​

Setting up correct redirections when migrating a website or individual pages is absolutely critical to preserve the traffic and conversions that they drive.

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 {
            pageTitle
            url
            foundAtUrl
            deeprank
            level
            httpStatusCode
            indexable
            duplicatePage
            gaVisits
            gaAvgPageLoadTime
            gaVisitBounceRate
            gaAvgTimeOnPage
            gaPageviewsPerVisits
            foundInGoogleAnalytics
            foundInGoogleSearchConsole
            foundInBacklinks
            foundInList
            foundInLogSummary
            foundInWebCrawl
            foundInSitemap
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

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