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The start URL could not be retrieved and/or analyzed.

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Written by Benjamin Weßel
Updated this week

Symptom

A created site audit fails and the following error message is displayed as a tooltip on the site audit:

"The start URL could not be retrieved and/or analyzed."

Cause

An unreachable domain was specified when the onpage analysis was created.

Solution

  1. Delete the incorrect onpage analysis from the project

  2. When setting up an onpage analysis, enter a domain that can be reached from the Internet and try the following steps

    1. make sure https Version is crawled, not the http version

    2. try to use a different start URL like www.domain.de/this-directory/

    3. change settings for crawl scope to "all subdomains"

    4. set robots to be ignored in the advanced settings

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