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Thin content

content.low_content
Priority
Medium
Severity
Warning

What we look for

These pages have fewer than 100 words of visible text, counting menus and footers.

Why it matters

A page with little text gives search engines little to understand and rank, and may be judged low in value. Pages such as contact forms and galleries can be short on purpose.

How to fix

Add useful text to pages that should rank, such as what the page offers and answers to common questions, or merge thin pages into a fuller one with a 301 redirect (a permanent forwarding rule).

Seen in a real crawl

From a crawl of Fernhollow Outdoor, a test site built for this site’s demo.

Medium

1 page has very little text

  • /waterproofs/ridge-trousers/44 words
Paths on http://127.0.0.1:8006raptor 0.3.0, 17 Oct 2026

Open this finding in that crawl’s report

It also fired on Millbrook Hardware and the js-heavy fixture.

Where you’ll see it

The id is stable, and every surface uses it, so it’s the thing to search for or hand to an agent.

Terminal
When it is one of the five findings under Fix first, raptor crawl prints the id under it.
Check: content.low_content
crawl.json and the CSV
The crawl JSON names the finding by this id, and so do the CSV and raptor_query.
"check_id": "content.low_content"
The HTML report
This link opens the finding in the report, and each finding shows its id.
crawl.html#finding=content.low_content
MCP
raptor_findings with this check_id returns the finding in full, with a fix brief ready to paste into a task. If it didn’t fire, it says why.
raptor_findings {
  "job_id": "...",
  "check_id": "content.low_content"
}