Critical Issues
Critical issues are the most serious SEO problems found on the page. Each one deducts 20 points from its category score and requires immediate attention.
Details
What makes an issue critical
An issue is classified as critical when it directly blocks crawling, indexing, or ranking. Examples include: missing or invalid SSL certificate, page returning a non-200 HTTP status, meta robots noindex tag on a page that should be indexed, missing title tag, or a completely empty robots.txt that disallows all crawlers.
How to prioritise critical issues
Fix critical issues before anything else. Start with indexability blockers (noindex, broken canonical, 4xx/5xx status) because they prevent the page from appearing in search results at all. Then address technical issues (SSL, robots.txt) that affect crawlability across the site.
Metrics
| Metric | Description |
|---|---|
| Critical count | Total number of critical-severity findings across all categories. |