Number of Pages Crawled dropped significantly
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Number of total pages crawled on the latest report is about half the number from one week ago. No major changes to the site. Number of issues also dropped (not surprisingly).
Why has the number dropped so significantly from week to week?
And are the issues actually cleared up, or just not counted because the crawl is so much smaller? -
Hey there! Tawny from Moz's Help Team here.
I took a look at your Campaign, and I think the reason we found fewer pages for your most recent crawl was that we got caught up in pages we'd already seeing as a result of redirect issues. I would recommend taking a close look at your redirect issues and see if you can resolve those — after that we should be able to crawl more pages again.
I hope this helps! If you still have questions, please write in to us at help@moz.com and we'll do our best to answer them all.
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