Scanned sites / yoast.com / 2026-10-14-1332

yoast.com scan from 10/14/2026, 1:32:38 PM DR 91

DR is Ahrefs Domain Rating (0-100, backlink strength), used under its Domain Rating License.

Scan 2026-10-14-1332

Scanned 10/14/2026, 1:32:38 PM, finished 10/14/2026, 2:03:17 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 2081 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.

90/ 100ExcellentNot a full crawl

On October 14, 2026 the Site Spider crawled 328 pages and 2 assets of yoast.com, starting from https://yoast.com/. It scored 90 out of 100, an excellent result. 8 of 23 checks found something to fix, led by sitemap coverage (132), title tags (76), meta descriptions (71); 6 checks passed. Most of the points went to sitemap coverage (−3), title tags (−2.9), meta descriptions (−2.2). 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: 328
Assets fetched: 2
Status: Completed
Checks with issues: 8 of 23

CoverageJob finished, partial coverage

330 of 2,420 discovered URLs were fetched, 9 blocked by robots.txt, 471 left out by the 5,000-page and 1,000-asset budget, 2,081 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, 592 left unchecked.

Title tags76 issues
76 of 254 pages have title issues. 10 noindex or canonicalized pages excluded.
−2.9 points
Meta descriptions71 issues
71 of 254 pages have meta description issues. 10 noindex or canonicalized pages excluded.
−2.2 points
Headings4 issues
4 of 254 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, 95 could not be determined (timeouts, rate limits or refusals), 592 were left unchecked by the per-scan cap, of 300 destinations checked.
−0.8 points
Redirects40 issues
41 redirecting URLs, 0 of them chained.
−0.6 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.
−0.4 points
IndexabilityOK
0 of 254 indexable pages have indexability warnings. 10 pages noindex by design.
Image alt text1 issue
1 of 10654 image references have no alt attribute. 9406 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 coverage132 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 counts19 noted
Internal link counts for 264 pages; 19 worth a look.
Thin contentOK
0 of 254 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 328 page URLs are harder to read, share or cache than they need to be.
Canonicals10 noted
10 of 264 pages have a canonical worth checking.
Robots directives264 noted
264 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 structure54 noted
54 of 254 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

2263 sites, median 79%, average 78%

yoast.com scores 90%, higher than 89% of the 2263 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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DR is Ahrefs Domain Rating (0-100, backlink strength), used under its Domain Rating License.

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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