Error Report

Ahrefs Site Audit issues impacting search & AI visibility

Total Errors

Total Instances

807

Categories

Queued for Fix

Error	Instances	Summary
🔗Internal Pages(2 issues)
4XX page	17	Returns a client/server error status code, which wastes crawl budget and blocks search engines and AI crawlers like GPTBot from indexing the content.
404 page	1	Returns a "Not Found" status, causing search engines to drop the URL from their index and preventing AI crawlers from accessing the content for training or citation.
↗️Links(3 issues)
Page has links to broken page	258	Internal links pointing to dead URLs waste PageRank equity and strand crawlers — including Googlebot, GPTBot, and ClaudeBot — in dead-end loops.
Orphan page (has no incoming internal links)	16	No internal links point to this page, making it undiscoverable by search engine and AI crawlers that rely on link paths to find and index content.
Page has no outgoing links	1	Pages without outgoing links fail to pass link equity, weakening the internal link graph that crawlers use to understand site hierarchy and content relationships.
↪️Redirects(1 issue)
Broken redirect	2	The redirect chain is broken, preventing crawlers from reaching the destination URL and causing both search engines and AI systems to lose access to the content.
🖼️Images(3 issues)
Page has broken image	3	Contains images that fail to load, which degrades Core Web Vitals scores used by Google's ranking algorithms and reduces the visual content available for multimodal AI indexing.
Image broken	2	The image file returns an error, creating a poor page experience signal for search ranking algorithms and removing the asset from visual search and AI image indexes.
Image file size too large	2	Oversized images slow page load speed, hurting Core Web Vitals performance scores that directly influence search rankings and crawler efficiency.
⚡JavaScript(2 issues)
Page has broken JavaScript	493	Broken JS prevents proper page rendering, which means content behind JS execution is invisible to search engines and AI crawlers that rely on rendered HTML.
JavaScript broken	1	A JavaScript resource fails to load, potentially blocking client-side rendering and hiding dynamic content from Googlebot's rendering engine and AI crawler parsers.
🗺️Sitemaps(2 issues)
3XX redirect in sitemap	8	The sitemap references URLs that redirect instead of resolving directly, which wastes crawl budget and sends mixed signals to search engines about canonical URLs.
4XX page in sitemap	3	The sitemap contains URLs returning error codes, eroding crawler trust in the sitemap's accuracy and wasting crawl budget on dead pages.

Error	Instances	Summary
🔗Internal Pages(2 issues)
4XX page	17	Returns a client/server error status code, which wastes crawl budget and blocks search engines and AI crawlers like GPTBot from indexing the content.
404 page	1	Returns a "Not Found" status, causing search engines to drop the URL from their index and preventing AI crawlers from accessing the content for training or citation.
↗️Links(3 issues)
Page has links to broken page	258	Internal links pointing to dead URLs waste PageRank equity and strand crawlers — including Googlebot, GPTBot, and ClaudeBot — in dead-end loops.
Orphan page (has no incoming internal links)	16	No internal links point to this page, making it undiscoverable by search engine and AI crawlers that rely on link paths to find and index content.
Page has no outgoing links	1	Pages without outgoing links fail to pass link equity, weakening the internal link graph that crawlers use to understand site hierarchy and content relationships.
↪️Redirects(1 issue)
Broken redirect	2	The redirect chain is broken, preventing crawlers from reaching the destination URL and causing both search engines and AI systems to lose access to the content.
🖼️Images(3 issues)
Page has broken image	3	Contains images that fail to load, which degrades Core Web Vitals scores used by Google's ranking algorithms and reduces the visual content available for multimodal AI indexing.
Image broken	2	The image file returns an error, creating a poor page experience signal for search ranking algorithms and removing the asset from visual search and AI image indexes.
Image file size too large	2	Oversized images slow page load speed, hurting Core Web Vitals performance scores that directly influence search rankings and crawler efficiency.
⚡JavaScript(2 issues)
Page has broken JavaScript	493	Broken JS prevents proper page rendering, which means content behind JS execution is invisible to search engines and AI crawlers that rely on rendered HTML.
JavaScript broken	1	A JavaScript resource fails to load, potentially blocking client-side rendering and hiding dynamic content from Googlebot's rendering engine and AI crawler parsers.
🗺️Sitemaps(2 issues)
3XX redirect in sitemap	8	The sitemap references URLs that redirect instead of resolving directly, which wastes crawl budget and sends mixed signals to search engines about canonical URLs.
4XX page in sitemap	3	The sitemap contains URLs returning error codes, eroding crawler trust in the sitemap's accuracy and wasting crawl budget on dead pages.

Error

Instances

Summary

Fix

🔗Internal Pages(2 issues)

4XX page

Returns a client/server error status code, which wastes crawl budget and blocks search engines and AI crawlers like GPTBot from indexing the content.

404 page

Returns a "Not Found" status, causing search engines to drop the URL from their index and preventing AI crawlers from accessing the content for training or citation.

↗️Links(3 issues)

Page has links to broken page

258

Internal links pointing to dead URLs waste PageRank equity and strand crawlers — including Googlebot, GPTBot, and ClaudeBot — in dead-end loops.

Orphan page (has no incoming internal links)

No internal links point to this page, making it undiscoverable by search engine and AI crawlers that rely on link paths to find and index content.

Page has no outgoing links

Pages without outgoing links fail to pass link equity, weakening the internal link graph that crawlers use to understand site hierarchy and content relationships.

↪️Redirects(1 issue)

Broken redirect

The redirect chain is broken, preventing crawlers from reaching the destination URL and causing both search engines and AI systems to lose access to the content.

🖼️Images(3 issues)

Page has broken image

Contains images that fail to load, which degrades Core Web Vitals scores used by Google's ranking algorithms and reduces the visual content available for multimodal AI indexing.

Image broken

The image file returns an error, creating a poor page experience signal for search ranking algorithms and removing the asset from visual search and AI image indexes.

Image file size too large

Oversized images slow page load speed, hurting Core Web Vitals performance scores that directly influence search rankings and crawler efficiency.

⚡JavaScript(2 issues)

Page has broken JavaScript

493

Broken JS prevents proper page rendering, which means content behind JS execution is invisible to search engines and AI crawlers that rely on rendered HTML.

JavaScript broken

A JavaScript resource fails to load, potentially blocking client-side rendering and hiding dynamic content from Googlebot's rendering engine and AI crawler parsers.

🗺️Sitemaps(2 issues)

3XX redirect in sitemap

The sitemap references URLs that redirect instead of resolving directly, which wastes crawl budget and sends mixed signals to search engines about canonical URLs.

4XX page in sitemap

The sitemap contains URLs returning error codes, eroding crawler trust in the sitemap's accuracy and wasting crawl budget on dead pages.