Site Audit

I have a lot of "Duplicate pages without canonical" issues with my freeplaysolitaire.com website that are a bit stupid because they're related to the same page .... www.freeplaysolitaire.com and freeplaysolitaire.com with the www removed. I've also had this "issue" reported for http:// and https:// being considered as two different web pages when they're the same page. Ahrefs should be a bit smarter about the analysis instead of going off a checksum of the web page contents and assuming there are duplicate pages when in fact they're the same one.

The Site Audit report is great to find issues. It would be greater if it were possible to turn off specific errors/warnings/infos for specific pages. For example: thin content for a number of pages that won't ever have more. Or no inlinks for pages that aren't meant to be discoverable. I have a number of those for participants of courses or webinars. They get the link from me and the content isn't intended for anyone else. At the moment I can only turn off a message for all pages. Or I have not found the way to do it for specific pages. Having page specific exlusions would go a long way to improving the usability of the audit reports and save me a lot of time re-checking issues that aren't actually issues. Thanks, kind regards, Marjan

I manage many websites and find it inconvenient to change the Site Audit frequency settings for each one individually. It would be beneficial to have a feature that allows me to change the Site Audit frequency for all websites on my account simultaneously, streamlining the process and saving time.

I would like the ability to use regular expressions (regex) directly in the path when setting up a new project. This feature would allow for more flexibility and precision in defining project paths, similar to how regex is used in other settings like Site Audit.

Hello Ahrefs Team, I have carefully analyzed the Health Score calculation, examined the Site Audit settings, and identified inconsistencies that seem illogical and incorrect to me. Currently, the Health Score is determined as the ratio of the number of errors to the total number of crawled URLs. However, this includes not just actual website pages, but also irrelevant assets like images, JavaScript files, and other resources that Ahrefs happens to find during the crawl. Many of these are not part of the core website, and neither Google nor users ever interact with them. The issue: If I let Ahrefs crawl everything, including thousands of images and JS files, my Health Score remains high because the total number of URLs is large. If I optimize the crawl to include only real web pages (by using only URLs from the sitemap and setting crawl depth to 0), my Health Score artificially drops from 95% to 5%, even though the number of actual errors remains the same. This suggests that the score is influenced more by the volume of crawled URLs rather than the real health of the internal website pages. Why this is a problem: 95% of the total URLs crawled are "junk" files where errors are irrelevant (e.g., images don’t have broken links, and old JavaScript files don’t directly impact the core website). Health Score should reflect the quality of actual web pages, not be artificially improved by crawling thousands of unnecessary files. Conversely, removing irrelevant URLs should not punish the score. Suggested improvement: I believe that Health Score should be calculated based only on the total number of internal web pages, rather than all crawled URLs (including static files and assets). This would give a more accurate representation of the site’s real health and prevent the need to artificially inflate the number of crawled URLs just to maintain a high score. For reference, here are the latest audits where this issue can be observed: https://app.ahrefs.com/site-audit/4392596 I appreciate your time and consideration, and I hope this can lead to improvements in how Health Score is measured. Best regards, Martin

Hi, i am currently on a trial and doing competitor research using ahrefs. Is there a way to download a spreadsheets which shows the wordcount of each article that is writting on a competitor site. I understand that 'top pages' allows you to see all the pages and articles that exists on a website and gives you the main keyword, volume, url etc. But it doesnt show the wordcount for each article. I would like to know if a specific competitor is writing long or short content on a specific subject. If you go to content explorer it does show word count. But content explorer doesnt seem to list all the articles from one specific website. In fact it only seems to show a few articles from a website. But top pages in the 'overview' area can show all pages. *and articles on a website.

Would be great if we could mark each issue as solved. So that it's not necessary to re-crawl everything to check which is done or not. Easy way to be able to keep on track instead of export everything and work on 2 different document. Easier to have everything within the application.

Add an extra feature where crawler will be able to recognize the platform in which the website is built in and report according to it and the best suggestions regarding the platform.

I notice that certain times, issues are being found that don't really exist. It would be useful to add a re-crawl to a specific URL. I'd add it to a stacked 3 elipses to the left of every URL in a report.

In order to build health site reports across multiple sites, it would be good to access Site Audit scores directly from the API . thanks