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It's the same text as the issue's page in these docs.",[147,188,189,190],{},"Three actions:\n",[144,191,192,203,209],{},[147,193,194,197,198,202],{},[49,195,196],{},"Show all N in Pages"," opens the ",[128,199,201],{"href":200},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fresults-table","Pages table"," on the Internal tab, filtered to just the affected URLs.",[147,204,205,208],{},[49,206,207],{},"Export affected"," saves the affected URLs to a CSV file.",[147,210,211,214],{},[49,212,213],{},"Copy docs link"," copies a link to the issue's page on crawlstat.com, which is handy for sending to a developer.",[147,216,217,220],{},[49,218,219],{},"Affected pages",": the first 50 pages, best linked first, so the ones that matter most are at the top. Each shows why it was flagged, for example the duplicate it shares a title with or the broken URL it links to. 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Open the broken URL's ",[49,275,259],{}," tab to find the pages that link to it, and fix the links there.",[10,278,280],{"id":279},"running-the-audits-again","Running the audits again",[15,282,283,284,287],{},"Click ",[49,285,286],{},"Rerun audits"," in the header to run every audit again over the open crawl. The button shows \"Auditing…\" while it works. Running them again doesn't fetch anything from the site. It reads again what's already in the crawl file.",[15,289,290],{},"This is useful in two situations:",[144,292,293,304],{},[147,294,295,298,299,303],{},[49,296,297],{},"You turned off \"Run audits when a crawl finishes\""," in ",[128,300,302],{"href":301},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fsettings","Settings",". The Issues tab will be empty until you run them.",[147,305,306,309],{},[49,307,308],{},"You've updated CrawlStat."," The checks are built into the app rather than stored in the crawl file, so running the audits again on an old crawl gives you the newest version of every check.",[15,311,312,313,316,317,320],{},"If a crawl has no issues listed, the tab says ",[49,314,315],{},"No issues found",": either the site is in good shape, or the audits haven't run yet. Click ",[49,318,319],{},"Run the audits"," to make sure.",[10,322,324],{"id":323},"exporting-issues","Exporting issues",[144,326,327,333],{},[147,328,329,332],{},[49,330,331],{},"Export CSV"," in the header exports a summary with one row per issue: its name, severity, number of URLs affected, description, how to fix it, and a link to its docs page. 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