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title: "Technical SEO Audit Stats: 2 in 3 of 293 Sites Have Broken Pages - PageSpeed Matters"
url: https://www.pagespeedmatters.com/resources/data-studies/technical-seo-audit-statistics
description: "195 of 293 crawled ranking sites (66.6%) have at least one page returning a 4xx error."
lang: en
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Technical SEO Audit Stats: 2 in 3 of 293 Sites Have Broken Pages (https://www.pagespeedmatters.com/resources/data-studies/technical-seo-audit-statistics)

195 of 293 crawled ranking sites (66.6%) have at least one page returning a 4xx error.

Sites with at least one broken (4xx) page

Stores (100) 62%

WordPress sites (95) 72.6%

Business sites (98) 65.3%

All sites (293) 66.6%

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

A site counts if any crawled page returns a 4xx, whatever the number of broken pages.

Source: Technical SEO Audit Stats: 2 in 3 of 293 Sites Have Broken Pages - PageSpeed Matters (https://www.pagespeedmatters.com/resources/data-studies/technical-seo-audit-statistics)