SiteAud!tLint Support

Opportunity Technical SEO

URL contains uppercase letters

Severity
Opportunity
Impact
Low
Effort to fix
Medium
Issue code
url_uppercase

Why it matters

URLs are case sensitive, so mixed case can create duplicate URLs and broken links when typed or shared.

How to fix it

Use lowercase URLs and 301 redirect uppercase versions to them.

How it affects your score

Finding this issue on any page costs the Technical SEO score 0.5 points, plus up to 4 more depending on the share of crawled pages affected. A smaller improvement with a modest effect on its own.

Find the affected URLs

Open Crawl > Issues and pick URL contains uppercase letters. 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 (low) and effort (medium), and in the issues CSV under the code url_uppercase. After fixing, run a new audit and use Compare to confirm the URLs moved to fixed.

Guides that cover this issue