Path Quality
URL path quality affects readability, shareability, and search engine processing. Long URLs, uppercase characters, underscores instead of hyphens, non-ASCII characters, and repetitive path segments all make URLs harder to process and share. These five checks identify path quality issues that are worth addressing for better URL hygiene.
URL is very long — difficult to read, share, and potentially truncated in some contexts.
URL contains uppercase letters — can create duplicate URL variants.
Underscores used as word separators — hyphens are the SEO standard.
URL contains non-ASCII characters — should be percent-encoded for maximum compatibility.
URL path contains repeated segments — often a sign of structural issues in URL architecture.
Audit URL path qualityacross your site
The audit identifies every URL with path quality issues so you can address them during the next site update.