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Repeated folder in address

url.repetitive_path
Priority
Low
Severity
Info

What we look for

The path of these addresses (the part after the domain) has the same part between slashes twice, such as /blog/blog/ or /shop/sale/shop/.

Why it matters

A repeat often comes from a link written without its leading slash, which stacks onto the current folder and can create endless new addresses for the same pages.

How to fix

Find where the link to each address comes from and correct it, usually by adding the leading slash so it starts from the site's root. Then send the repeated address to the right one with a 301 redirect (a permanent forwarding rule).

What it cannot know

Some repeats are deliberate, such as a date like /2024/05/05/. Raptor cannot tell those from mistakes.

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.repetitive_path
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.repetitive_path"
The HTML report
This link opens the finding in the report, and each finding shows its id.
crawl.html#finding=url.repetitive_path
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.repetitive_path"
}