Scanned sites / yoast.com / 2026-10-17-1407

yoast.com scan from 10/17/2026, 2:07:36 PM DR 91

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

Scan 2026-10-17-1407

Scanned 10/17/2026, 2:07:36 PM, finished 10/17/2026, 3:17:49 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 2534 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 17, 2026 the Site Spider crawled 1152 pages and 7 assets of yoast.com, starting from https://yoast.com/. It scored 91 out of 100, an excellent result. 10 of 23 checks found something to fix, led by sitemap coverage (491), title tags (296), meta descriptions (226); 4 checks passed. Most of the points went to title tags (−3), sitemap coverage (−3), meta descriptions (−1.8). 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: 1152
Assets fetched: 7
Status: Completed
Checks with issues: 10 of 23

CoverageJob finished, partial coverage

1,159 of 3,703 discovered URLs were fetched, 10 blocked by robots.txt, 3,104 left out by the 5,000-page and 1,000-asset budget, 2,534 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, 4129 left unchecked.

Title tags296 issues
296 of 907 pages have title issues. 75 noindex or canonicalized pages excluded.
−3 points
Meta descriptions226 issues
226 of 907 pages have meta description issues. 75 noindex or canonicalized pages excluded.
−1.8 points
Headings13 issues
13 of 907 pages have heading issues. 75 noindex or canonicalized pages excluded.
−0.1 points
Broken linksOK
0 internal links point at 0 broken URLs.
Links to other sites10 issues
10 destinations answered with an error, 110 could not be determined (timeouts, rate limits or refusals), 4129 were left unchecked by the per-scan cap, of 300 destinations checked.
−0.4 points
Redirects150 issues
147 redirecting URLs, 4 of them chained.
−0.6 points
Non-200 responses147 noted
147 URLs did not return a 2xx response. 146 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.
−0.1 points
Indexability21 issues
21 of 927 indexable pages have indexability warnings. 55 pages noindex by design.
−0.2 points
Image alt text1 issue
1 of 40907 image references have no alt attribute. 34153 use an empty alt (decorative), which is fine.
Heavy assetsOK
0 assets larger than 500 KB among 7 fetched assets. 2 documents over that size are listed but not counted: downloads are not page weight.
Orphan pages18 issues
18 pages have no internal links pointing at them.
−0.1 points
Sitemap coverage491 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 counts18 noted
Internal link counts for 500 pages; 18 worth a look.
Thin contentOK
0 of 907 pages have fewer than 200 words. 75 noindex or canonicalized pages excluded.
Duplicate contentOK
0 groups of pages with identical HTML.
URL format20 noted
20 of 1152 page URLs are harder to read, share or cache than they need to be.
Canonicals75 noted
75 of 982 pages have a canonical worth checking.
Robots directives982 noted
982 pages carry a robots directive; 0 carry none.
Anchor text648 noted
648 destinations are linked without useful anchor text, or with nofollow.
Title and heading structure176 noted
176 of 907 pages could use the title, heading and snippet space better. 75 noindex or canonicalized pages excluded.
Image weight and alt length70 noted
0 images over 100 KB; 70 with alt text over 100 characters.
Response anomalies32 noted
32 URLs answered in a way worth looking at.

Where this scan sits among all scanned sites

2278 sites, median 79%, average 78%

yoast.com scores 91%, higher than 91% of the 2278 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.

Sites scoring near yoast.com

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

sacryelectric.comDR 092/100 · rank 135 · 85 pages
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www.bbatraining.ieDR 091/100 · rank 163 · 14 pages
royaloakphysio.caDR 1491/100 · rank 163 · 283 pages

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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