Matan · SEO · Structure

Crawl completeness

If we cannot fetch this URL, a site-wide crawl will not analyse it either.

Pass condition in our engine: The URL returns HTTP 200 with HTML.

1. Problem description

In a full report this check asks whether the crawler reached the discoverable set (up to the page cap). On a single URL it reduces to: did this address return HTML? Failures here are fetch, TLS, or bot-block problems — not “the sitemap is incomplete”.

2. Most common causes

  • Bot blocking, geo fences, or IP reputation filters.
  • The URL requires cookies or a login.
  • Timeouts on a slow origin.

3. How to fix it

  1. Make the URL publicly fetchable without a session.
  2. Allow our user agent if you filter bots.
  3. Use a full report to see how much of the site is actually discovered.

Test this check

We fetch only this URL (plus robots.txt / llms.txt at the domain root when the check needs them). We do not crawl the rest of the site like a full report.

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