Faceted Navigation Auditor

Store Positioning

Store title: Faceted Navigation Auditor

Short description: Identify faceted navigation crawl traps, parameter bloat, indexability risks, and filter-path issues.

SEO title: Faceted Navigation Auditor — technical SEO, web, and domain audit

SEO description: Identify faceted navigation crawl traps, parameter bloat, indexability risks, and filter-path issues. Use it to find crawlability, indexability, security, metadata, and page-quality issues with evidence-backed rows and audit reports.

Categories: SEO_TOOLS

Keywords: faceted, navigation, auditor, web/domain audit

Fixed-Inclusive PPE Pricing

This actor uses pay-per-event pricing. Event prices include Apify platform usage; users are not expected to pay a separate platform-usage pass-through charge for the configured pricing model.

• Tier: W1 — Web/domain audit
• Primary event: page-audited at $0.00490 base
• Default max charge: $10.00
• Store discounts: FREE/BRONZE base, SILVER discounted, GOLD deepest approved discount

Event set:

• actor-start: base $0.00500, GOLD $0.00400. Faceted Navigation Auditor: charged when actor start is completed. The price includes Apify platform usage; no separate usage pass-through is intended.
• page-audited: base $0.00490, GOLD $0.00392. Faceted Navigation Auditor: charged when page audited is completed. The price includes Apify platform usage; no separate usage pass-through is intended.
• record-extracted: base $0.00372, GOLD $0.00298. Faceted Navigation Auditor: charged when record extracted is completed. The price includes Apify platform usage; no separate usage pass-through is intended.
• finding-emitted: base $0.00372, GOLD $0.00298. Faceted Navigation Auditor: charged when finding emitted is completed. The price includes Apify platform usage; no separate usage pass-through is intended.
• audit-report-generated: base $0.05000, GOLD $0.04000. Faceted Navigation Auditor: charged when audit report generated is completed. The price includes Apify platform usage; no separate usage pass-through is intended.

Public Task Concepts

• Audit Faceted Navigation controls on a capped public sample
• Find high-priority Faceted Navigation issues before release
• Validate Faceted Navigation evidence from supplied pages
• Prioritize Faceted Navigation fixes with severity and proof
• Export Faceted Navigation QA rows for client review

Audit parameterized navigation URLs for crawl traps and indexation risk.

What This Actor Does

Faceted Navigation Auditor parses each supplied URL and classifies facet, control, tracking, and session parameters. It detects duplicate keys, reads canonical and robots evidence from metadata or HTML, evaluates whether a faceted URL is indexable, and estimates combination growth from supplied facet option counts.

Each dataset row includes a facetedRows evidence object with parameter classifications, canonical policy, noindex state, unapproved indexable parameters, and bounded combination potential.

What This Actor Does Not Do

• It does not crawl every filter combination or modify robots, canonical, or application routing rules.
• It does not decide which filtered landing pages have search demand.
• It does not render JavaScript; provide captured HTML when canonical or robots tags are client-rendered.
• Combination estimates depend on the supplied optionCounts values.

Best Use Cases

• ecommerce and marketplace filter QA
• migration checks for canonical and noindex policy
• session, tracking, and duplicate-parameter detection
• crawl-budget triage before launch
• evidence exports for SEO and engineering teams

Input Fields

Field	Type	Default	Notes
records	array	two built-in records	Parameterized URLs plus policy metadata or HTML.
urls	array	[]	Explicit URLs; these override schema-populated defaults.
fetchUrls	boolean	false	Fetch HTML for canonical and robots evidence.
fetchTimeoutMs	integer	12000	Per-request timeout, capped at 30 seconds.
includeReport	boolean	true	Writes JSON and Markdown report artifacts.
maxItems	integer	2	Result cap; maximum 50.
maxTextBytes	integer	500000	HTML/text cap per record.

Policy metadata fields include canonical, robots, noindex, indexable, allowedIndexableParameters, optionCounts, and optional html.

Example Input

{
  "records": [
    {
      "sourceId": "shoe-facets",
      "sourceUrl": "https://shop.example.com/shoes?color=black&size=10&brand=acme&sort=price&utm_source=email",
      "metadata": {
        "canonical": "https://shop.example.com/shoes",
        "robots": "noindex,follow",
        "optionCounts": {"color": 12, "size": 18, "brand": 40}
      }
    }
  ],
  "maxItems": 1,
  "includeReport": true
}

Output Evidence

The result reports normalized URL evidence and findings such as facet-parameter-bloat, indexable-combination, canonical-missing, canonical-target-risk, indexable-pagination, duplicate-parameters, tracking-parameters, session-parameter, and combination-explosion.

Cost Control

• Start with representative high-value category URLs.
• Supply canonical and robots metadata directly when already collected.
• Keep option counts bounded to the facets under review.
• Disable report artifacts when only dataset rows are needed.

Public Task Examples

• inspect one category's canonical and indexation policy
• classify facet, control, tracking, and session keys
• estimate filter-combination growth from option counts
• prioritize crawl-trap findings before release
• export normalized faceted URL evidence

Limitations

This actor performs record-level URL and supplied-HTML analysis. Sitewide crawl discovery, rendered DOM inspection, log-file crawl frequency, search demand, and index coverage require separate data sources.

Source And Safety Notes

Use public or permissioned URLs. Do not include authenticated session URLs, credentials, or private customer identifiers. Session parameters are flagged for removal from crawlable links.

Changelog

• 2026-07-10: Added parameter classification, canonical/noindex policy, duplicate-key, session-key, and combination-growth evidence with expanded regression coverage.