case consistency
Whether the site's own links and sitemap entries agree on how a URL is written: lowercase paths, one trailing-slash form, one host form, no navigation through query strings. To a crawler /About and /about are two URLs, and a site that links to both has published every page twice.
What case consistency does not show
Scored from the hrefs and sitemap entries the site itself serves, never from the paths CrawlCheck chose to request.
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Whether a page can be found and kept, separately from whether it can be fetched.
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Questions about case consistency
What is case consistency?
Whether the site's own links and sitemap entries agree on how a URL is written: lowercase paths, one trailing-slash form, one host form, no navigation through query strings. To a crawler /About and /about are two URLs, and a site that links to both has published every page twice.
What does case consistency not show or guarantee?
Scored from the hrefs and sitemap entries the site itself serves, never from the paths CrawlCheck chose to request.
Which area of the glossary does case consistency belong to?
Indexing and discovery: Whether a page can be found and kept, separately from whether it can be fetched.
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