Crawlability check
One canonical host answers for every variant
The www and non-www variants, with and without a trailing slash, resolve to a single form.
medium severitycrawl.host-canonical
Run this check on your site
Runs just this check in quick mode. The report opens with the evidence and the fix.
Why it matters
When several addresses serve the same content, search engines have to guess which one to index and which one to keep in results.
How to fix it
Pick one host and one trailing slash style, then redirect every other variant to it with a 301.
The details
- Category
- Crawlability
- Severity of a failure
- medium
- Confidence
- high
- Needs a browser
- No
- Check id
- crawl.host-canonical
References
Free tools that run this check
SEO CheckerFind the technical problems that keep a page out of search results. The checker reads the page the way a search crawler does and lists what to fix first, with the evidence behind every verdict.Redirect CheckerFollow every redirect of an address, hop by hop. Find chains that slow crawlers down, loops that break pages, and host variants that split your signals across duplicates.Canonical CheckerThe canonical link tells search engines which url is the real one when several show the same content. Check that it exists, that it is absolute and that it points at a working page.SSL and HTTPS CheckerA trusted certificate is only part of HTTPS. Check that the handshake succeeds, that http redirects to https, that HSTS keeps browsers on https and that no resource is loaded insecurely.