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How to Compare a Crawl Before and After an SEO Fix
A developer says the canonical fix is live, and the next crawl has fewer warnings. That is encouraging, but it does not show whether the intended URLs changed…
How to Diagnose Interaction to Next Paint (INP) Problems
A page loads quickly, yet opening its menu or applying a filter feels delayed. A load-only test may never exercise that failure. Investigate the interaction itself: what the…
How to Diagnose a Slow Largest Contentful Paint (LCP)
A page’s largest visible element appears late, but compressing the hero image barely changes the result. The delay may occur before the image request starts or after the…
How to Find Orphan Pages and Fix Internal Linking Gaps
A sitemap contains a useful guide, but a crawl starting from the homepage never finds it. That gap makes the page an orphan candidate, not an automatic deletion…
How to Audit XML Sitemaps for Indexing Problems
A sitemap can be accepted by Search Console while still listing redirected, removed, or noncanonical pages. A successful submission tells you that the file was processed; it does…
How to Audit Robots.txt Without Blocking Important Pages
A production site can serve useful pages while its robots.txt still contains a staging rule that blocks crawling. The opposite failure is also possible: an edit removes a…
Crawled – Currently Not Indexed: How to Diagnose the Real Cause
Search Console says a URL was crawled but is not indexed. The page opens normally, has a canonical tag, and appears in a sitemap. None of those observations…
How to Find and Fix Broken Internal Links
A crawler reports hundreds of broken links, but the visitor sees only one bad navigation item. Another broken URL appears once in an old guide and has no…