yoast.com scan from 10/11/2026, 12:54:30 PM DR 91

On October 11, 2026 the Site Spider crawled 232 pages and 2 assets of yoast.com, starting from https://yoast.com/. It scored 88 out of 100, a good result. 8 of 23 checks found something to fix, led by sitemap coverage (90), title tags (46), meta descriptions (57); 6 checks passed. Most of the points went to sitemap coverage (−3), title tags (−2.6), meta descriptions (−2.5). 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

232

Assets fetched

2

Status

Completed

Checks with issues

8 of 23

• Title tags46 issues
  46 of 176 pages have title issues. 4 noindex or canonicalized pages excluded.
  −2.6 points
• Meta descriptions57 issues
  57 of 176 pages have meta description issues. 4 noindex or canonicalized pages excluded.
  −2.5 points
• Headings2 issues
  2 of 176 pages have heading issues. 4 noindex or canonicalized pages excluded.
  −0.1 points
• Broken linksOK
  0 internal links point at 0 broken URLs.
• Links to other sites11 issues
  11 destinations answered with an error, 88 could not be determined (timeouts, rate limits or refusals), 311 were left unchecked by the per-scan cap, of 300 destinations checked.
  −2.4 points
• Redirects28 issues
  29 redirecting URLs, 0 of them chained.
  −0.6 points
• Non-200 responses29 noted
  29 URLs did not return a 2xx response. 28 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.
  −0.5 points
• IndexabilityOK
  0 of 176 indexable pages have indexability warnings. 4 pages noindex by design.
• Image alt text1 issue
  1 of 7483 image references have no alt attribute. 6593 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 coverage90 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 counts13 noted
  Internal link counts for 180 pages; 13 worth a look.
• Thin contentOK
  0 of 176 pages have fewer than 200 words. 4 noindex or canonicalized pages excluded.
• Duplicate contentOK
  0 groups of pages with identical HTML.
• URL format10 noted
  10 of 232 page URLs are harder to read, share or cache than they need to be.
• Canonicals4 noted
  4 of 180 pages have a canonical worth checking.
• Robots directives180 noted
  180 pages carry a robots directive; 0 carry none.
• Anchor text91 noted
  91 destinations are linked without useful anchor text, or with nofollow.
• Title and heading structure21 noted
  21 of 176 pages could use the title, heading and snippet space better. 4 noindex or canonicalized pages excluded.
• Image weight and alt length26 noted
  0 images over 100 KB; 26 with alt text over 100 characters.
• Response anomalies7 noted
  7 URLs answered in a way worth looking at.

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