SEO report for yoast.com DR 91

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 26 checks found something to fix, led by sitemap coverage (491), title tags (296), meta descriptions (226); 5 checks passed. Most of the points went to title tags (−3), sitemap coverage (−3), meta descriptions (−1.8). 11 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: not available for this scan.

Pages crawled

1152

Assets fetched

7

Status

Completed

Checks with issues

10 of 26

• 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.
• 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 404s2 noted
  2 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 cookies5 noted
  6 cookies set by the site, 5 missing a protective flag; 17 response headers recorded across 1159 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 982 pages; 888 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.

yoast.com gained 1 point since the previous scan, moving from 90 to 91 out of 100. 1,189 findings changed. The two crawls did not cover the same ground, so part of the difference is coverage rather than change. The crawl reached 824 more pages than last time, 1152 in total, so some of the change is a change in what was crawled. Across 12 scans on record it is up 7 points overall.

• Pages: 718 new
• Page status codes: 130 new, 24 changed
• Redirects: 106 new
• Internal links to the page: 209 changed
• Crawl depth: 2 changed
• Crawl coverage differed between the two scans; some differences may be coverage rather than change

1. 2026-09-19 14:52:09 UTC86/1003,492 pages
2. 2026-09-22 17:56:39 UTC89/1001,967 pages
3. 2026-09-25 20:31:11 UTC90/100338 pages
4. 2026-09-28 21:26:41 UTC90/100324 pages
5. 2026-10-01 22:01:44 UTC83/1004,174 pages
6. 2026-10-05 11:43:33 UTC90/100322 pages
7. 2026-10-08 12:19:32 UTC91/100358 pages
8. 2026-10-11 12:54:30 UTC88/100232 pages
9. 2026-10-14 13:32:38 UTC90/100328 pages
10. 2026-10-17 14:07:36 UTC91/1001,152 pages

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Earlier scans of yoast.com

• 2026-10-14 13:32:38 UTC (2026-10-14-1332)Score 90 · 328 pages
• 2026-10-11 12:54:30 UTC (2026-10-11-1254)Score 88 · 232 pages
• 2026-10-08 12:19:32 UTC (2026-10-08-1219)Score 91 · 358 pages
• 2026-10-05 11:43:33 UTC (2026-10-05-1143)Score 90 · 322 pages
• 2026-10-01 22:01:44 UTC (2026-10-01-2201)Score 83 · 4174 pages
• 2026-09-28 21:26:41 UTC (2026-09-28-2126)Score 90 · 324 pages
• 2026-09-25 20:31:11 UTC (2026-09-25-2031)Score 90 · 338 pages
• 2026-09-22 17:56:39 UTC (2026-09-22-1756)Score 89 · 1967 pages
• 2026-09-19 14:52:09 UTC (2026-09-19-1452)Score 86 · 3492 pages
• 2026-09-16 12:57:01 UTC (2026-09-16-1257)Score 91 · 1378 pages
• 2026-09-13 03:48:25 UTC (2026-09-13-0348)Score 84 · 3759 pages

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