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title: "Internal Nofollow Usage: 61.1% of Crawled Ranking Sites - PageSpeed Matters"
url: https://www.pagespeedmatters.com/resources/data-studies/internal-nofollow-usage
description: "179 of 293 crawled ranking sites (61.1%) nofollow at least one internal link, and 2.9% of their 17,374,383 internal links are nofollowed."
lang: en
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Internal Nofollow Usage: 61.1% of Crawled Ranking Sites (https://www.pagespeedmatters.com/resources/data-studies/internal-nofollow-usage)

179 of 293 crawled ranking sites (61.1%) nofollow at least one internal link, and 2.9% of their 17,374,383 internal links are nofollowed.

Sites that nofollow at least one internal link, by platform

Shopify (70) 78.6%

WordPress (126) 64.3%

Other platforms (97) 44.3%

Source: PageSpeed Matters. Crawls of 293 ranking sites, up to 1,000 pages each, Oct 2026.

Small samples; many nofollowed links are theme login and cart links.

Source: Internal Nofollow Usage: 61.1% of Crawled Ranking Sites - PageSpeed Matters (https://www.pagespeedmatters.com/resources/data-studies/internal-nofollow-usage)