Page explorer: Advanced filters

How advanced filters work

Advanced filters work like logical programming, with each of them having four parts:

1. Rules: are the conditions you set

2. Groups: represent a set of rules

3. AND/OR operators: define how groups should work

4. Crawls: allows you to filter data from previous/current crawls

To illustrate this, let’s deconstruct the following custom filter that has 5 rules and 3 filters.

Group #1 uses the AND operator, which means any rule (and group) in it needs to be true:

The URL needs to be a valid 200 (OK) internal page AND The page needs to be indexable

AND Group #2 needs to be true

Group #2 uses the OR operator, which means:

The meta description doesn’t exist OR Group #3 needs to be true

Group #3 uses the AND operator, which means:

The page has one meta description AND The character length is 0

In short, the custom filter says: the page needs to be a valid 200 (OK) internal page AND indexable, AND the meta description can’t exist, OR it exists but is empty.

If we were to number rules and use logical schemas, the formula would look like this:

To save time creating filters, you can create a custom issue from the Create issue button in the top right corner and assign it an issue priority.

NOTE

Page Explorer allows you to create and combine filters and SEO metrics to find any issue you can imagine. As such, the use cases below are only a snapshot of what you can do with this report.