Scanned sites / yoast.com / 2026-10-08-1219

yoast.com scan from 10/8/2026, 12:19:32 PM

Scan 2026-10-08-1219

Scanned 10/8/2026, 12:19:32 PM, finished 10/8/2026, 12:53:28 PM. Found with 42backlinks.com tool directory

Not a full crawl. The site rate-limited the crawler (25 requests answered 429), so the scan finished early with 2044 URLs left unfetched. Results cover what was crawled.

Site: https://yoast.com/

Download SQLite databaseEvery page and asset from this scan, with the crawl events, in one file.

91/ 100ExcellentNot a full crawl

On October 8, 2026 the Site Spider crawled 358 pages and 2 assets of yoast.com, starting from https://yoast.com/. It scored 91 out of 100, an excellent result. 8 of 23 checks found something to fix, led by sitemap coverage (147), title tags (80), meta descriptions (79); 6 checks passed. Most of the points went to sitemap coverage (−3), title tags (−2.7), meta descriptions (−2.1). 9 checks found something the score does not count, listed as noted. 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: not available for this scan.

Pages crawled: 358
Assets fetched: 2
Status: Completed
Checks with issues: 8 of 23

CoverageJob finished, partial coverage

360 of 2,413 discovered URLs were fetched, 9 blocked by robots.txt, 500 left out by the 5,000-page and 1,000-asset budget, 2,044 skipped when the crawl was cut short. The job finished, but the crawl did not reach everything it found. HTML only: nothing here ran JavaScript. 300 link destinations on other sites were checked, 604 left unchecked.

Title tags80 issues
80 of 284 pages have title issues. 10 noindex or canonicalized pages excluded.
−2.7 points
Meta descriptions79 issues
79 of 284 pages have meta description issues. 10 noindex or canonicalized pages excluded.
−2.1 points
Headings4 issues
4 of 284 pages have heading issues. 10 noindex or canonicalized pages excluded.
−0.1 points
Broken linksOK
0 internal links point at 0 broken URLs.
Links to other sites5 issues
5 destinations answered with an error, 96 could not be determined (timeouts, rate limits or refusals), 604 were left unchecked by the per-scan cap, of 300 destinations checked.
−0.7 points
Redirects40 issues
41 redirecting URLs, 0 of them chained.
−0.5 points
Non-200 responses41 noted
41 URLs did not return a 2xx response. 40 of them are pages, 0 with an error status; the rest are assets or redirects.
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.
−0.3 points
IndexabilityOK
0 of 284 indexable pages have indexability warnings. 10 pages noindex by design.
Image alt text1 issue
1 of 11874 image references have no alt attribute. 10555 use an empty alt (decorative), which is fine.
Heavy assetsOK
0 assets larger than 500 KB among 2 fetched assets.
Orphan pagesOK
0 pages have no internal links pointing at them.
Sitemap coverage147 issues
No sitemap found. Tried: https://yoast.com/sitemap.xml (301), https://yoast.com/sitemap_index.xml (skipped). Add one at /sitemap.xml or list it in robots.txt.
−3 points
Internal link counts20 noted
Internal link counts for 294 pages; 20 worth a look.
Thin contentOK
0 of 284 pages have fewer than 200 words. 10 noindex or canonicalized pages excluded.
Duplicate contentOK
0 groups of pages with identical HTML.
URL format10 noted
10 of 358 page URLs are harder to read, share or cache than they need to be.
Canonicals10 noted
10 of 294 pages have a canonical worth checking.
Robots directives294 noted
294 pages carry a robots directive; 0 carry none.
Anchor text99 noted
99 destinations are linked without useful anchor text, or with nofollow.
Title and heading structure76 noted
76 of 284 pages could use the title, heading and snippet space better. 10 noindex or canonicalized pages excluded.
Image weight and alt length28 noted
0 images over 100 KB; 28 with alt text over 100 characters.
Response anomalies8 noted
8 URLs answered in a way worth looking at.

Where this scan sits among all scanned sites

2153 sites, median 79%, average 78%

yoast.com scores 91%, higher than 91% of the 2153 scanned sites. See the full ranking.

Green 90% and up (Excellent), lime 75 to 89 (Good), amber 50 to 74 (Needs work), red below 50 (Poor).

Internal link map

LabelsOnly weakly linked

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Start page (centre)OKRedirectErrorOrphanLinked from most pagesOne inbound link or noneRings = clicks from the start page. Size = inbound links. Drag to pan, scroll to zoom, click a page to see only its links.

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Their neighbours in the SEO rank table, which orders every scanned site by health score.

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This report was produced by the DIY SEO Hub Site Spider crawling yoast.com from its pages as published, the way a search engine does. It shows summary figures only.

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