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Tutorials, FAQs and best practices with our Site Audit tool

Site Audit

Understand why you see '403 Forbidden'  error for certain pages in Site Audit and how to fix

What does '403 Forbidden' error mean in Site Audit?

Find out how to deal with the ‘Multiple title tags’ issue in Site Audit

What does the ‘Multiple title tags’ issue in Site Audit mean?

Learn more about the "H1 tag missing or empty" issue in Ahrefs' Site Audit and how to fix it on your website.

"H1 tag missing or empty" warning in Site Audit

Learn more about the "CSS file size too large" issue in Ahrefs' Site Audit and how to fix it on your website.

CSS file size too large

Learn more about the "CSS broken" issue in Ahrefs' Site Audit and how to fix it on your website.

"CSS broken" warning in Site Audit

Find out how to deal with the ‘Noindex page in sitemap’ error in Site Audit

What does the ‘Noindex page in sitemap’ issue in Site Audit mean?

Find out how to deal with ‘Title tag missing or empty’ issue

What does ‘Title tag missing or empty’ issue in Site Audit mean

This article deals with 'canonical points to 4xx' issue in Site Audit

What does 'Canonical points to 4XX' issue  in Site Audit mean?

Find out how to deal with the ‘Redirect loop’ issue in Site Audit

What does the ‘Redirect loop’ issue in Site Audit mean?

Find out how to deal with the ‘Redirected page has no incoming internal links’ issue

What does the ‘Redirected page has no incoming internal links’ issue in Site Audit mean?

Find out how to deal with the ‘Self-referencing hreflang annotation missing’ issue

What does the ‘Self-referencing hreflang annotation missing’ issue in Site Audit mean?

Find out how to deal with the ‘Timed out’ issue in Site Audit

What does the ‘Timed out’ issue in Site Audit mean?

Learn more about the "Page referenced for more than one language in hreflang" issue in Ahrefs' Site Audit and how to fix it on your website.

"Page referenced for more than one language in hreflang" error in Site Audit

Learn more about the "3xx redirect" issue in Site Audit and how to fix it on your website.

"3xx redirect" warning in Site Audit

Learn more about the "Canonical points to redirect" issue in Site Audit and how to fix it on your website.

"Canonical points to redirect" error in Site Audit

Learn more about the "Redirect chain" issue in Ahrefs' Site Audit and how to fix it on your website.

"Redirect chain" error in Site Audit

Learn more about the "Page has nofollow incoming internal links only" issue in Ahrefs' Site Audit and how to fix it on your website.

"Page has nofollow incoming internal links only" error in Site Audit

Learn more about the "JavaScript broken" issue in Ahrefs' Site Audit and how to fix it on your website.

"JavaScript broken" error in Site Audit

Learn more about the "Page from sitemap timed out" issue in Ahrefs' Site Audit and how to fix it on your website.

"Page from sitemap timed out" error in Site Audit

Learn more about the "3xx redirect in sitemap" issue in Ahrefs' Site Audit and how to fix it on your website.

"3xx redirect in sitemap" error in Site Audit

Learn more about the "Page has nofollow and dofollow incoming internal links" issue in Ahrefs' Site Audit and how to fix it on your website.

"Page has nofollow and dofollow incoming internal links" error in Site Audit

Learn more about the "Page has no outgoing links" issue in Ahrefs' Site Audit and how to fix it on your website.

"Page has no outgoing links" error in Site Audit

Learn more about the "Page has links to redirect" issue in Ahrefs' Site Audit and how to fix it on your website.

"Page has links to redirect" error in Site Audit

Learn more about the "Page has links to broken page" issue in Ahrefs' Site Audit and how to fix it on your website.

"Page has links to broken page" error in Site Audit

Learn more about the "Page has broken JavaScript" issue in Ahrefs' Site Audit and how to fix it on your website.

"Page has broken JavaScript" error in Site Audit

Learn more about the "Page has broken image" issue in Ahrefs' Site Audit and how to fix it on your website.

"Page has broken image" error in Site Audit

Learn more about the "Orphan page" issue in Ahrefs' Site Audit and how to fix it on your website.

"Orphan page" error in Site Audit

Learn more about the "Non-canonical page in sitemap" issue in Ahrefs' Site Audit and how to fix it on your website.

"Non-canonical page in sitemap" error in Site Audit

Learn more about the "Multiple meta description tags" issue in Ahrefs' Site Audit and how to fix it on your website.

"Multiple meta description tags" error in Site Audit

Learn more about the "Noindex page receives organic traffic" issue in Ahrefs' Site Audit and how to fix it on your website.

"Noindex page receives organic traffic" error in Site Audit

Learn more about the "More than one page for same language in hreflang" issue in Ahrefs' Site Audit and how to fix it on your website.

"More than one page for same language in hreflang" error in Site Audit

Learn more about the "Meta description tag missing or empty" issue in Ahrefs' Site Audit and how to fix it on your website.

"Meta description tag missing or empty" error in Site Audit

Learn more about the "Missing reciprocal hreflang (no return-tag)" issue in Ahrefs' Site Audit and how to fix it on your website.

"Missing reciprocal hreflang (no return-tag)" error in Site Audit

Learn more about the "Image broken" issue in Ahrefs' Site Audit and how to fix it on your website.

"Image broken" error in Site Audit

Learn more about the "HTTPS page has internal links to HTTP" issue in Ahrefs' Site Audit and how to fix it on your website.

"HTTPS page has internal links to HTTP" error in Site Audit

Learn more about the "Hreflang to non-canonical" issue in Ahrefs' Site Audit and how to fix it on your website.

"Hreflang to non-canonical" error in Site Audit

Learn more about the "HTML lang attribute invalid" issue in Ahrefs' Site Audit and how to fix it on your website.

"HTML lang attribute invalid" error in Site Audit

Learn more about the "Hreflang to broken page" issue in Ahrefs' Site Audit and how to fix it on your website.

"Hreflang to broken page" error in Site Audit

Learn more about the "Hreflang annotation invalid" issue in Ahrefs' Site Audit and how to fix it on your website.

"Hreflang annotation invalid" error in Site Audit

Learn more about the "Hreflang and HTML lang mismatch" issue in Ahrefs' Site Audit and how to fix it on your website.

"Hreflang and HTML lang mismatch" error in Site Audit

Learn more about the "Duplicate pages without canonical" error in Ahrefs' Site Audit and how to fix it on your website.

"Duplicate pages without canonical" error in Site Audit

Learn more about the "Double slash in URL" issue in Ahrefs' Site Audit and how to fix it on your website.

"Double slash in URL" error in Site Audit

Learn more about the "Canonical URL has no incoming internal links" issue in Ahrefs' Site Audit and how to fix it on your website.

"Canonical URL has no incoming internal links" error in Site Audit

Learn more about the "5xx page in sitemap" issue in Ahrefs' Site Audit and how to fix it on your website.

"5xx page in sitemap" error in Site Audit

Learn more about the "404 page" error in Ahrefs' Site Audit and how to fix it on your website.

"404 page" error in Site Audit

Learn more about the "Broken redirect" issue in Ahrefs' Site Audit and how to fix it on your website.

"Broken redirect" error in Site Audit

Learn more about the "500 page" issue in Ahrefs' Site Audit and how to fix it on your website.

"500 page" error in Site Audit

Learn more about the "Canonical points to 5XX" issue in Site Audit and how to fix it on your website.

"Canonical points to 5XX" error in Site Audit

Learn more about the "4xx page receives organic traffic" issue in Ahrefs' Site Audit and how to fix it on your website.

"4xx page receives organic traffic" error in Site Audit

Learn more about the "403 page receives organic traffic" issue in Ahrefs' Site Audit and how to fix it on your website.

"403 page receives organic traffic" error in Site Audit

Learn more about the "4xx page in sitemap" issue in Ahrefs' Site Audit and how to fix it on your website.

"4xx page in sitemap" error in Site Audit

Learn more about the "403 page in sitemap" issue in Ahrefs' Site Audit and how to fix it on your website.

"403 page in sitemap" error in Site Audit

Learn more about the "3xx page receives organic traffic" issue in Ahrefs Site Audit and how to fix it.

"3xx page receives organic traffic" error in Site Audit

Learn more about the "302 redirect" issue in Site Audit and how to fix it on your website.

"302 redirect" warning in Site Audit

Nick Churick

Issues

How to omit the rise, or additional website traffic numbers due to CWV enabled in Site Audit settings.

How to filter out increased traffic in Google Analytics due to enabling Core Web Vitals in Site Audit

This article explains how to set Site Audit to crawl pages existing in a sitemap exclusively (for new and existing projects)

How to set Site Audit to crawl only pages within a sitemap

The article goes into details on how to enable and where to find Core Web Vital metrics in Ahrefs Site Audit tool

How to see Core Web Vitals and other speed metrics in Site Audit tool

See where our crawler found pages reported in Site Audit (Website, Sitemaps, Backlinks)

How to find the page source in your Site Audit report

Common issues and how to troubleshoot website ownership verification

Verifying ownership of your project or website

Learn how to use Regular Expressions in Site Audit advanced filters and how to set "Include" and "Exclude" rules for the crawl.

How to Use Regular Expressions in Ahrefs' Site Audit

Find out how to check for changes in Site Audit reports.

How to compare crawl changes in Site Audit

Guide to editing your Site Audit settings for a new crawl

How to access/edit your Site Audit settings

Need to export issues found by our crawler on your site? Read on for details.

How to export Site Audit report?

Learn how to get the list of pages that link to 4xx and 5xx URLs and download this list.

How do download the full list of pages with broken links on my website?

Need to verify ownership of your Wordpress site by adding a HTML meta tag to its homepage? Here's how.

How to add the HTML tag to your Wordpress site's homepage for ownership verification

Find out how to toggle pre-set issues on or off and change the level of importance

How to configure pre-set issues within Ahrefs Site Audit

Find out how to exclude noindex pages, nofollow links, specific URL patterns and more.

How to avoid crawling specific pages in Site Audit

How to customise your own issue on Ahrefs Site Audit

Check your site's image issues and understand what needs attention or fixing

How to see if images are optimised in Site Audit

Find out how to exclude noindex pages from your reports.

How to exclude specific pages from Site Audit reports

Learn how to set the "borders" of your project in Site Audit using the modes selector.

How to define the scope of a crawl in Site Audit using different modes?

Matt

Tutorials

Find out how to solve the ‘invalid Sitemap format’ warning in Site Audit

What does the "Format of the following Sitemaps is invalid" warning in Site Audit mean?

Discover what 'Nofollow page' warning in Site Audit stands for and how to fix

What does 'Nofollow page' warning in Site Audit mean?

Find out why you see "Nofollow in HTML and HTTP header" issue and how to fix it

What does "Nofollow in HTML and HTTP header" mean in Site Audit?

Read on for more info on how to interpret this value and why it is important for site's overall performance

What does "Time to first byte" indicate in Site Audit report?

Learn how to deal with 'Canonical from HTTP to HTTPS' notice in Site Audit

What does 'Canonical from HTTP to HTTPS' notice in Site Audit mean?

Find out what "Non-canonical page specified as canonical one" means and how to deal with this warning.

What does "Non-canonical page specified as canonical one" warning in Site Audit mean?

Learn more about the "5XX page" error in Ahrefs' Site Audit and how to fix it on your website.

What does ‘5XX page’ error mean in Site Audit?

Learn more about the "4xx page" issue in Ahrefs' Site Audit and how to fix it on your website.

What does ‘4xx page’ error mean in Site Audit?

Understand '3xx redirect' warning in Ahrefs Site Audit

What does ‘3XX redirect’ warning mean in Site Audit?

Find out how is Health Score calculated within Site Audit

What is Health Score and how is it calculated in Ahrefs Site Audit?

Find out what the internal Page Rating (PR) is, and how it is calculated.

What is Site Audit's Page Rating and how do we calculate it?

What does "indexable" mean in Site Audit?

Discover what 'Noindex page' warning in Site Audit stands for.

What does 'Noindex page' warning in Site Audit mean?

Find out what the "404 page" error means.

What does "404 page" error mean in Site Audit?

Find out what the "HTTPS to HTTP redirect" warning means.

What does "HTTPS to HTTP redirect" warning mean in Site Audit?

Find out how to resolve "meta refresh redirect" issue

What is 'meta refresh redirect' and why is it considered a critical issue?

Discover what the corresponding 'Canonical from HTTPS to HTTP' notice is all about

'Canonical from HTTPS to HTTP' notice in Site Audit: what should I do about it?

Quinn Mazza

Terminology

Understand why and how to resolve 409 Conflict HTTP response code for your pages

Why am I seeing a 409 Conflict error in my Ahrefs Site Audit?

See why Shopify product pages linked on collection pages are still flagged as Orphan pages or having no internal links in Site Audit

Why is my Shopify website flagged for "Orphan pages" and "Canonical URLs have no internal links" in Site Audit?

Learn how to drill further into the reports to find where these pages are located on your site

Site Audit is reporting pages that are not on my site. Why is this?

Learn how to drill further into the reports to find where these redirects are being discovered

Why am I seeing redirects in Site Audit that do not exist?  Could these be false redirects?

Find out how to whitelist Ahrefs IP in Cloudflare Firewall

How to whitelist Ahrefs IPs in Cloudflare?

Learn which pages consume your monthly Crawl Credits in Ahrefs' Site Audit tool.

How are Crawl Credits in Site Audit spent?

I get an error message when setting up a crawl in Site Audit. How do I fix this?

Troubleshooting common issues with Site Audit access

Find out why Site Audit only crawls a few pages in your project.

Site Audit

Issues

Tutorials

Terminology

FAQs and Troubleshooting

Best Practices