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Importance: High
Error «Broken Pages» Description
Indicates unavailable URLs (e.g. due to connection failure, exceeded response timeout, etc.), or the ones returning 4xx and higher HTTP status codes. To view a special report precisely on broken links, press the 'Issue report' button over the main table.
The Importance of the Problem
Broken pages are the URLs unavailable for users and search engines (e.g. they were deleted, the server cannot process the request, etc.).
When landing on such addresses, users see an error page instead of desired content, that's why they may consider the site low-quality and leave it.
When the site has lots of links to broken pages, search engines may also consider it low-quality and decrease its rankings in search results. Additionally, search robots waste crawling resources on broken pages, that's why important pages may lack them and not get into the search index. As a result, the site may lose search traffic.
How to Fix Error
Delete links to broken pages or replace them with links to available addresses. Click the 'Issue report' button above the main table to see all links to broken pages.
If a lot of URLs returning the 429, 5xx status codes, or timeout appear during crawling, they might be unavailable due to a high load on a site. In such case, pause the crawling, decrease the number of threads in settings, set a delay between requests, or use a list of proxies, and after that continue crawling. When crawling is complete, recrawl unavailable URLs: just select the URLs in the table and use the Ctrl+R shortcut.
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