- Content & schema
- 50tests fired in this category
- modules
- 8dedicated content & schema checks
- every scan
- 299+tests across all categories
Why it matters
A broken canonical on a key landing page deserves attention before a cosmetic metadata warning on an archive. FixWeb groups related failures and considers whether a finding blocks crawling, indexing, rendering, eligibility, or internal discovery.
How it works
The crawl checks noindex and X-Robots-Tag signals, robots blocks, server errors, internal 4xxs, redirect chains, rendering errors, schema errors, broken links, orphans, and hreflang reciprocity. With Search Console, it can weight findings by traffic tier and evaluate field LCP, INP, and CLS rather than lab-only guesses.
Site impact
High-mechanism failures can suppress whole templates or prevent search engines from reaching otherwise valuable pages. Link-integrity and hreflang issues often spread through shared templates. Low-mechanism nits are deliberately parked so the report points to root causes and leverage, not a long undifferentiated checklist.
How to improve
Fix accidental noindex or robots rules first, then resolve server errors, internal 404s, and redirect chains. Repair render blockers, canonicals, JSON-LD, links, and reciprocal hreflang at the template or sitemap source. Use field LCP, INP, and CLS on important pages to target performance work where users actually experience it.
