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Thin Pages

Indexable pages with less content than the Thin Page Threshold but more than the Empty Page Threshold specified in Advanced settings > Report settings.

Priority: Medium

Impact: Negative

What issues it may cause​

Pages with a small content size may be classified as 'thin content' and might not be indexed or devalue your site quality.

If these pages are indexed they may result in a poor user-experience for the visitors referred from a search engine results page.

How do you fix it​

The pages can be reviewed to identify pages that can be updated to include more unique content or prevented from being crawled to improve the crawl efficiency.

What is the positive impact​

Adding more unique and relevant content to these pages should improve the user-experience, increase their chances to rank for more search terms and drive more traffic.

If you decide to remove these unnecessary pages then this should result in an improvement to your crawl efficiency so other more important pages have chance to be indexed.

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
            description
            foundAtUrl
            contentSize
            deeprank
            level
            wordCount
            foundInGoogleAnalytics
            foundInGoogleSearchConsole
            foundInBacklinks
            foundInList
            foundInLogSummary
            foundInWebCrawl
            foundInSitemap
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

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