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Space in address

url.contains_space
Priority
Medium
Severity
Warning

What we look for

The path of these addresses (the part after the domain) holds a space, written as %20 or as a plain space.

Why it matters

A space turns into %20 when the address is copied, which makes links hard to read and easy to break when pasted into an email or a document.

How to fix

Replace spaces with hyphens in the page addresses set in your CMS, and send each old address to its new one with a 301 redirect (a permanent forwarding rule). Then update the links that use the old address.

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