yoast.com scan from 2026-09-13 03:48:25 UTC DR 91

On September 13, 2026 the Site Spider crawled 3759 pages and 71 assets of yoast.com, starting from https://yoast.com/. It scored 84 out of 100, a good result. 13 of 26 checks found something to fix, led by heavy assets (8), sitemap coverage (2,345), title tags (900); 4 checks passed. Most of the points went to heavy assets (−4.8), sitemap coverage (−4.5), title tags (−2.9). 9 checks found something the score does not count, listed as noted. 11 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: Medium2 medium and 1 low findings. See the security findings ↓

Pages crawled

3759

Assets fetched

71

Status

Completed

Checks with issues

13 of 26

• Title tags900 issues
  900 of 2435 pages have title issues. 658 noindex or canonicalized pages excluded.
  −2.9 points
• Meta descriptions751 issues
  751 of 2435 pages have meta description issues. 658 noindex or canonicalized pages excluded.
  −1.9 points
• Headings18 issues
  18 of 2435 pages have heading issues. 658 noindex or canonicalized pages excluded.
• Broken links27 issues
  132 internal links point at 27 broken URLs.
  −0.2 points
• Links to other sites6 issues
  6 destinations answered with an error, 88 could not be determined (timeouts, rate limits or refusals), 12579 were left unchecked by the per-scan cap, of 300 destinations checked.
  −0.1 points
• Redirects652 issues
  615 redirecting URLs, 43 of them chained.
  −0.8 points
• Non-200 responses28 issues
  643 URLs did not return a 2xx response. 642 of them are pages, 28 with an error status; the rest are assets or redirects.
  −0.1 points
• Rate limited24 issues
  24 URLs (24 pages) answered HTTP 429 on every try, so the crawler backed off and moved on without analysing them. A site that throttles crawlers this hard can throttle search engines too.
• Indexability114 issues
  114 of 2550 indexable pages have indexability warnings. 543 pages noindex by design.
  −0.4 points
• Image alt text1 issue
  1 of 128429 image references have no alt attribute. 106221 use an empty alt (decorative), which is fine.
• Heavy assets8 issues
  8 assets larger than 500 KB among 71 fetched assets. 11 documents over that size are listed but not counted: downloads are not page weight.
  −4.8 points
• Orphan pages35 issues
  35 pages have no internal links pointing at them.
• Sitemap coverage2,345 issues
  1 sitemap listing 129 URLs: 2329 crawled pages missing, 16 listed URLs broken or redirecting, 0 reachable only via the sitemap. 1 listed URL not crawled within the 5000-page budget.
  −4.5 points
• Internal link counts47 noted
  Internal link counts for 500 pages; 47 worth a look.
• Thin contentOK
  0 of 2435 pages have fewer than 200 words. 658 noindex or canonicalized pages excluded.
• Duplicate contentOK
  0 groups of pages with identical HTML.
• URL format72 noted
  72 of 3759 page URLs are harder to read, share or cache than they need to be.
• Canonicals660 noted
  660 of 3093 pages have a canonical worth checking.
• Robots directives3,093 noted
  3093 pages carry a robots directive; 0 carry none.
• Anchor text1,669 noted
  1669 destinations are linked without useful anchor text, or with nofollow.
• Title and heading structure481 noted
  481 of 2435 pages could use the title, heading and snippet space better. 658 noindex or canonicalized pages excluded.
• Image weight and alt length145 noted
  2 images over 100 KB; 143 with alt text over 100 characters.
• Response anomalies109 noted
  109 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 404s4 noted
  4 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; 16 response headers recorded across 3830 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 3093 pages; 3017 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 InsightsNot checked
  Not checked yet: PageSpeed Insights runs on the top pages once the crawl has finished.
• SpellingNot checked
  Not checked: this scan was crawled before this check existed. Scan the site again to run it.

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