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links.localhost_outlinks
Priority
Medium
Severity
Warning

What we look for

These pages link to localhost, 127.0.0.1 or a similar loopback address, which points at the visitor's own computer rather than at your site.

Why it matters

These links work only on the computer where the site was built, so visitors who follow one get an error instead of the page.

How to fix

Replace each local address with the live address of the page, in the CMS or page template. These links are often left behind by a site move or by content copied from a test copy of the site.

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: links.localhost_outlinks
crawl.json and the CSV
The crawl JSON names the finding by this id, and so do the CSV and raptor_query.
"check_id": "links.localhost_outlinks"
The HTML report
This link opens the finding in the report, and each finding shows its id.
crawl.html#finding=links.localhost_outlinks
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": "links.localhost_outlinks"
}