Audit rules
Orphan Page
A page listed in the sitemap that no crawled page links to. In a QuikSEO audit, a failure of this rule has warning severity and is left out of the score. Below are the exact condition, its exceptions and the sources behind it, followed by the other rules of the same group.
site.orphan_pageWarning01 — Definition
How This Rule Is Checked
The rule is a pure function of the fetched page: no extra requests, no account settings. The same input always gives the same result.
Rule Severity and Score
- Rule id
site.orphan_page- Group
- Site (Crawl)
- Severity of a failure
- Warning
- Counts in the score
- No, the site rules of a crawl are left out of the score
- Required for a score
- No
Condition and Exceptions
- Condition
- A page from the sitemap was audited and no other crawled page links to it → fail on that page
- Exceptions
- The start page; a crawl that stopped early (links from unvisited pages are unknown) marks this as review
Sources
- Sources
- Link best practices for Google (Google Search Central, Q35)
Learn about sitemaps (Google Search Central, Q37)
02 — Site (Crawl)
Other Rules in This Group
The other checks of the same group, each with its own condition and sources.
- Duplicate Titlesite.duplicate_title
- Duplicate Meta Descriptionsite.duplicate_meta_description
- Internal Link to an Error Pagesite.broken_internal_link
- Internal Link Through a Redirectsite.redirect_internal_link
- Invalid Sitemapsite.sitemap_invalid
- Sitemap URL Not Indexablesite.sitemap_url_not_indexable
- Hreflang Without Return Linksite.hreflang_not_reciprocal
- Deep Pagesite.click_depth