New issues added on August, 15, 2023
Security
Type: Notice
- Page requires CAPTCHA authentication method
New issues added on June, 12, 2023
Security
Type: Critical
- SSL certificate is invalid
Links
Type: Warning
- Broken jump link
New issues added on January, 11, 2023
Search traffic
Type: Critical
- GSC clicks dropped more than 25% for the last 7 days
- GA clicks dropped more than 25% for the last 7 days
New issues added on December, 7, 2022
Duplicate content
Type: Critical
- Technically duplicate URLs
New issues added on December, 1, 2022
Code validation
Type: Critical
- PHP fatal error
- Google Tag Manager code in <body>
Content relevance
Type: Critical
- Lorem Ipsum content on the live site
- Homepage with the title tag of “Home”
Type: Warning
- Author box with “Admin”
Links
Type: Opportunity
- Links in the footer with a no-follow attribute
Type: Notice
- Empty links “#”
New issues added on November, 7, 2022
Search traffic
Type: Opportunity
- Connect Google Analytics and Search Console properties to Sitechecker
New issues added on October, 26, 2022
Indexability
Type: Critical
- Page has disallowed JavaScript files
- Page has disallowed images
- Page has disallowed CSS files
- Page contains a form with a GET method
- Page has content before <!doctype html>
Type: Warning
- Base URL malformed or empty
Type: Notice
- Page has content-type other than text/html
XML Sitemaps
Type: Critical
- Noindex URL in XML sitemaps
- Disallowed URL in XML sitemaps
- Canonicalized URL in XML sitemaps
- 4xx client errors in XML sitemaps
- 5xx server errors in XML sitemaps
Type: Warning
- 3xx redirects in XML sitemaps
- Timed out URL in XML sitemaps
Type: Notice
- URL in multiple XML sitemaps
Links
Type: Critical
- Orphan URLs – only found via canonical
- Orphan URLs – only found via noindex, follow
- Orphan URLs – only found via redirect
- Orphan URLs – only linked from other isolated URLs
Type: Warning
- Page has broken links to external websites
Localization
Type: Critical
- Canonicalized URL has incoming hreflang
- Disallowed URL has incoming hreflang
- Has conflicting incoming hreflang annotations
Redirects
Type: Critical
- Internal redirects from case normalization
- Internal redirects from trailing slash mismatch
- Internal URL redirect broken
- Internal URL redirects back to itself
- Internal URL is part of a chained redirect loop
Code validation
Type: Critical
- Page has identical HTML id attributes
New issues added on August, 08, 2022
HTTPS URL contains a form posting to HTTP
Type: Critical
Category: Security
Pages that use HTTPS protocol, but contain a form that posts to a HTTP URL. For example, page https://domain.com/page-1/ contains <form action=”http://domain.com/form_send.php”></form>.
Missing hreflang annotations
Type: Notice
Category: Localization
Pages that have no incoming hreflang annotations, while there are pages with hreflang annotations on the website.
Hreflang annotation also x-default
Type: Notice
Category: Localization
Pages that are defined as an hreflang alternate, and also defined as the x-default hreflang.
Page has no declared character encoding
Type: Critical
Category: Indexability
Pages that have no declared character encoding in meta tag (for example, <meta charset=”utf-8″>) or HTTP header (for example, Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8). For the HTML or XML page to be displayed correctly, the character encoding must be declared. By specifying an encoding, you help search engines understand the data so that they are able to interpret it properly.
Page has no declared <!doctype html>
Type: Critical
Category: Code validation
Pages that have no declared <!doctype html> or this declaration has errors. If you want your website to be displayed correctly in every browser, you need to specify which HTML and CSS you are using. Otherwise, the webpage’s content will take longer to process, and the result may not be successful. Each browser will show the page differently; the elements will be displayed incorrectly. It may hide some components while facing the errors that existed in older browsers.
Mismatched nofollow directives in HTML and header
Type: Critical
Category: indexability
Pages that contain nofollow directive in meta tag (for example, <meta name=”robots” content=”nofollow”>) and follow directive in HTTP header (for example, X-Robots-Tag: follow) or vice verca. If robots directives conflict, Google will use the most restrictive directive, so it means that Googlebot won’t crawl the links on such pages.
Mismatched noindex directives in HTML and header
Type: Critical
Category: Indexability
Pages that contain noindex directive in meta tag (for example, <meta name=”robots” content=”noindex”>) and index directive in HTTP header (for example, X-Robots-Tag: index) or vice verca. If robots directives conflict, Google will use the most restrictive directive, so it means that Googlebot won’t index such pages.
Multiple base URLs
Type: Warning
Category: Indexability
Pages that contain a base URL (<base href=”https://domain.com”>) defined more than one. The <base> HTML element specifies the base URL to use for all relative URLs in a document. There can be only one <base> element in a document.
Multiple canonical tags
Type: Warning
Category: Indexability
Pages where canonical directive is defined more than one: either page has two and more canonical HTML tags (<link rel=”canonical” href=”https://domain.com/folder1/product1/” />) or it has one canonical HTML tag and one canonical directive in HTTP header (Link: <https://domain.com/folder1/product1/>; rel=”canonical”).
Multiple noindex directives
Type: Warning
Category: Indexability
Pages where noindex directive is defined more than one: either page has two and more meta robots tags with noindex directive (<meta name=”robots” content=”noindex”>) or it has noindex directive in meta robots tag and X-Robots-Tag HTTP header (X-Robots-Tag: noindex).
Multiple, mismatched base URLs
Type: Warning
Category: Indexability
Pages that contain a base URL defined more than one with different values (for example, <base href=”https://domain1.com”> and <base href=”https://domain2.com”>). The <base> HTML element specifies the base URL to use for all relative URLs in a document. There can be only one <base> element in a document.
