Checks / Links, canonical and speed
Page is more than 3 clicks from the home page
Pages deep in the click path are crawled less often and look less important.
deep_page · Links, canonical and speed · Notice
What to change
Link to the page from a hub, category or the navigation so it is at most 3 clicks from home.
How common it is
In the audits of our own sites on 26 Oct 2026 (4 sites): finding judged right on citedby.eu, hexaciv.com, resaleiq.dev.
Source: finding audit 2026-10-26 (English).
About this check
| Check ID | deep_page |
|---|---|
| Report section | Links, canonical and speed |
| Severity | Notice |
| How it is decided | Measured: read directly from the page or the server's response. |
| Added | Version 3, 19 October 2026 |
| Status | Measured in every report |
| Report gives the code | No, the fix is described in words |
Related checks
- Broken internal links
- Canonical points to a broken or redirecting URL
- Redirect loop
- Canonical points to a noindex page
- Canonical points to another page
- Pages refuse or do not answer our crawler
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