ahrefs.com scan from 2026-09-13 02:38:46 UTC DR 91

On September 13, 2026 the Site Spider crawled 4993 pages and 1047 assets of ahrefs.com, starting from https://ahrefs.com/. It scored 82 out of 100, a good result. 13 of 27 checks found something to fix, led by heavy assets (53), image alt text (111,757), sitemap coverage (2,251); 5 checks passed. Most of the points went to heavy assets (−6), image alt text (−4.1), sitemap coverage (−2.8). 9 checks found something the score does not count, listed as noted. 10 checks were not run because the crawl fetched nothing for them. The list below shows each check's result, the fix plan, when present, explains what to do first, and the security review at the end of the page covers headers, transport, libraries and exposed files.

Security review: Low1 low finding. See the security findings ↓

Pages crawled

4993

Assets fetched

1047

Status

Completed

Checks with issues

13 of 27

• Title tags1,156 issues
  1156 of 2899 pages have title issues. 1846 noindex or canonicalized pages excluded.
  −2.4 points
• Meta descriptions1,338 issues
  1338 of 2899 pages have meta description issues. 1846 noindex or canonicalized pages excluded.
  −2.3 points
• Headings14 issues
  14 of 2899 pages have heading issues. 1846 noindex or canonicalized pages excluded.
• Broken links20 issues
  38 internal links point at 20 broken URLs.
  −0.1 points
• Links to other sites5 issues
  5 destinations answered with an error, 87 could not be determined (timeouts, rate limits or refusals), 10422 were left unchecked by the per-scan cap, of 300 destinations checked.
• Redirects228 issues
  225 redirecting URLs, 3 of them chained.
  −0.2 points
• Non-200 responses23 issues
  248 URLs did not return a 2xx response. 248 of them are pages, 23 with an error status; the rest are assets or redirects.
• Rate limitedOK
  The site did not rate limit the crawler.
• Indexability186 issues
  186 of 4745 indexable pages have indexability warnings.
  −0.4 points
• Image alt text111,757 issues
  111757 of 162179 image references have no alt attribute. 1101 use an empty alt (decorative), which is fine.
  −4.1 points
• Heavy assets53 issues
  53 assets larger than 500 KB among 1047 fetched assets. 13 documents over that size are listed but not counted: downloads are not page weight.
  −6 points
• Orphan pages4 issues
  4 pages have no internal links pointing at them.
• Sitemap coverage2,251 issues
  7 sitemaps listing 1960 URLs: 2250 crawled pages missing, 1 listed URL broken or redirecting, 0 reachable only via the sitemap. 1,342 listed URLs not crawled within the 5000-page budget.
  −2.8 points
• Internal link counts415 noted
  Internal link counts for 500 pages; 415 worth a look.
• Thin content3 issues
  3 of 2899 pages have fewer than 200 words. 1846 noindex or canonicalized pages excluded.
• Duplicate contentOK
  0 groups of pages with identical HTML.
• URL format1,748 noted
  1748 of 4993 page URLs are harder to read, share or cache than they need to be.
• Canonicals1,846 noted
  1846 of 4745 pages have a canonical worth checking.
• Robots directivesOK
  No page carries a robots directive; all 4745 pages are open to search engines.
• Anchor text330 noted
  330 destinations are linked without useful anchor text, or with nofollow.
• Title and heading structure2,280 noted
  2280 of 2899 pages could use the title, heading and snippet space better. 1846 noindex or canonicalized pages excluded.
• Image weight and alt length2,298 noted
  85 images over 100 KB; 2213 with alt text over 100 characters.
• Response anomalies47 noted
  47 URLs answered in a way worth looking at.
• HTML and head validationNot checked
  Not checked: this scan was crawled before this check existed. Scan the site again to run it.
• hreflangNot checked
  Not checked: this scan was crawled before this check existed. Scan the site again to run it.
• Structured dataNot checked
  Not checked: this scan was crawled before this check existed. Scan the site again to run it.
• Near duplicatesNot checked
  Not checked: this scan was crawled before this check existed. Scan the site again to run it.
• Soft 404s2 noted
  2 pages answer 200 but say they are not there.
• AccessibilityNot checked
  Not checked: the accessibility audit runs in the browser. Tick "Include JavaScript rendering checks" when you request a scan to run it.
• Link positionsNot checked
  Not checked: this scan was crawled before link positions were recorded. Scan the site again to run it.
• PaginationNot checked
  Not checked: this scan was crawled before this check existed. Scan the site again to run it.
• Headers and cookiesOK
  0 cookies set by the site; 15 response headers recorded across 6040 URLs.
• Orphans in searchNot checked
  Not checked: import a Search Console Pages export on the scan page to find pages Google shows that the site does not link to.
• Link ScoreOK
  Link Score (internal PageRank, 0-100) for 4745 pages; 4658 hold almost none (10 or less).
• JavaScript renderingNot checked
  Not checked: this scan did not render pages. Tick "Include JavaScript rendering checks" when you request a scan to compare the served HTML with what a browser builds.
• PageSpeed Insights5 noted
  Mobile performance 55 on average across 5 pages; 5 below Google's good thresholds.
• SpellingNot checked
  Not checked: this scan was crawled before this check existed. Scan the site again to run it.

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