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flag to turn of double counting of errors

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Helmut Berié

If I use the audit as a list to create DEV cards from then having a flag that allows me to turn of related errors would be helpful. A lot of offending issues are counted multiple times. fixing it in one error class,f fixes it in the other classes as well

July 15, 2020

Andrey Kirillov

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Andrey Kirillov

Hi Helmut Berié, thanks for the request.

There are two ways to turn off specific issues in Site Audit:

You can turn off issues for all projects in https://ahrefs.com/site-audit/settings
You can turn off issues for a specific crawl by clicking "Manage list" in "All issues" report

Please let me know if this helps.

Helmut Berié

Andrey Kirillov: the point of this request is not to turn off individual error classes but to not be notified of issues that are fixed by fixing another issue also shown in the audit. for example the 404 and the 4xx errors are largely the same as most of the 4xx errors are 404 errors

Andrey Kirillov

Helmut Berié: once you've fixed an issue you need to run a new crawl so the Site Audit can check if the issue is fixed. After that all similar issues will not be reported as well.

But I understand that you don't like that some issues report similar problems. As a quick solution I could recommend you to switch off a specific 404 error so the Site Audit will only report 4xx errors.

Helmut Berié

Andrey Kirillov: all good, after I have gotten my head around this it really is not longer that much of an issue.

It would make using the tool more effective though.

Andrey Kirillov

Helmut Berié: glad to hear that. We'll think how to reduce duplication between the issues. For now I'll complete this request. Thank you!