Warning Technical SEO
Could not audit: rate limited
- Severity
- Warning
- Impact
- Medium
- Effort to fix
- Low
- Issue code
rate_limited
Why it matters
The server kept answering "too many requests" (HTTP 429), even after SiteAud!tLint slowed down and retried, so this page was not checked. This is common on Shopify and some hosting providers and does not mean the page is broken.
How to fix it
In Settings, set Parallel requests to 1 and Delay between requests to 1 second, then audit again.
How it affects your score
Finding this issue on any page costs the Technical SEO score 3 points, plus up to 12 more depending on the share of crawled pages affected. Weakens rankings, crawling or measurement. Fix after critical issues.
Find the affected URLs
Open Crawl > Issues and pick Could not audit: rate limited. Each affected URL is listed with its evidence, and Copy URLs or Export URLs hands the list to a developer. The issue also appears in the Action Plan, ranked by impact (medium) and effort (low), and in the issues CSV under the code rate_limited. After fixing, run a new audit and use Compare to confirm the URLs moved to fixed.