Click depth too high: link important pages closer
Important URLs should not be accessible only after many clicks.
Important URLs should not be reachable only after many clicks The error should never be evaluated in isolation. What matters is which URL group is affected and whether it creates a crawling, indexing, snippet, performance or quality problem.
Finding the shortest meaningful way to the important page
A product page can be accessed through many pagination pages, while a thematically appropriate guide doesn’t contain a single link to it. Therefore, check not only the number of clicks, but the existing content relationships. A direct context link can be more helpful to visitors than another global menu element.
Example: Recognizing the Result
Illustrative example: An important consulting service can only be achieved via several archive pages. A thematically appropriate performance overview does not yet link to it.
Limit cause and implement correction
Start a new crawl from the same entry page and compare accessibility. Check whether the new link is also visible without a search function or active filters. There is no maximum click count for every website; however, important business pages should have an understandable, stable access route.
What makes you recognize a suitable correction
Set an understandable context link from the appropriate overview or a relevant guide and re-determine the shortest accessible path.
Classification and boundaries
When is this indication not a clear error?
There is no universal ideal click depth value for every website. Unimportant archives do not have to have the same proximity to the homepage as central services.
Click depth too high for CMS and cause
Many audit messages can be resolved faster if they are grouped by system, page type and technical cause. CMS indentations are only linked where click depth too high has a clear cause or fixed route in the respective system.
For this error, there is currently no own CMS deepening, because the correction is usually not sufficiently system-specific. Take advantage of the general causes and checks on this page.
Frequent causes of this error
Related SEO Errors
Appropriate Seitenreport checks
This error should not be checked in isolation. The following tools and clusters help to narrow down the cause faster and to cleanly prioritize the affected URL groups.