Before you begin:
This guide explains what path exclusions are and how to use them to tailor your site audit.
What are Path Exclusions
If there are pages or folders that aren’t important or relevant to your site, you can exclude them from your site audit (and site audit report). For example, if you are intentionally disallowing a folder and its contents in your robots.txt file, you may want the Site Auditor to ignore those pages in its analysis report.
How to Exclude Paths From a Site Audit
1] While creating or editing a site audit, you will encounter this screen.
2] Enter the path exclusion in the Block Pages from Crawler textbox. A path exclusion can be a folder, a folder with all its contents, or an individual file.
- File:
/folder/file.html - Folder:
/folderor/folder/ - Folder with everything below its path:
/folder/*
3] To add more path exclusions, click the +Add button and repeat step 2.
4] To remove a path exclusion (so it will be analyzed), click the trashcan icon to the right of the path.
5] Once you’ve configured your path exclusions, click the Save button at the bottom of the screen.