Checks
Thin-page ratio
Measures what share of the whole crawled site has fewer than 100 words, since a high concentration of thin pages signals a systemic content problem, not an isolated one.
What this check looks for
Across every successfully-crawled page, this check counts how many have fewer than 100 words and expresses that as a ratio of the total. A ratio over 30% fails; a ratio over 10% (but at or under 30%) warns; 10% or less passes. A site with no successfully crawled pages reports "na".
Why it matters
One thin page is a minor issue; a third of your site being thin is a pattern search engines notice at the domain level, not just the page level — it can drag down how the whole site is evaluated for quality, even pages that are individually strong. This often happens with auto-generated pages (tag archives, empty category pages, thin location pages) that were never meant to carry real content but ended up indexable anyway. For AI systems that sample multiple pages from a domain to gauge overall trustworthiness, a site where a large share of pages are near-empty reads as a lower-quality, less authoritative source overall.
How to fix it
Address the pattern, not just individual pages — find what's generating the thin pages and either strengthen the template or remove it from indexing:
<!-- Auto-generated tag page with almost no unique content -->
<h1>Posts tagged "sale"</h1>
<ul><li><a href="/p/1">Item 1</a></li></ul># Or, if the page type genuinely can't carry substance, keep it out of the index:
<meta name="robots" content="noindex">Consolidate near-duplicate thin pages into fewer, stronger ones wherever the content overlaps.
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