Audit rules
SEO Friendly URL
Editorial: the path of the final URL contains uppercase letters or characters outside a-z, 0-9, "-", "/", ".", "_", "~" and "%". Hex digits of percent-escapes (%C3) are not uppercase letters. The query string is not checked. In a QuikSEO audit, a failure has info severity and counts against the score. The exact condition, its exceptions and its sources follow below.
editorial.friendly_urlInfo01 — Definition
How This Rule Is Checked
The rule is a pure function of the fetched page: no extra requests, no account settings. The same input always gives the same result.
Rule Severity and Score
- Rule id
editorial.friendly_url- Group
- Editorial
- Severity of a failure
- Info
- Counts in the score
- Yes, whenever it applies to the page
- Required for a score
- No
- Replaces the check
is_seo_friendly_url
Condition and Exceptions
- Condition
- Path contains characters outside [a-z0-9-/._~%] (case-insensitive) or uppercase letters → fail (info)
- Exceptions
- Root / → pass
Sources
- Sources
- URL Structure Best Practices for Google Search (Google Search Central, Q39)
RFC 3986: Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax, section 2.3 Unreserved Characters (IETF, Q72)
02 — Editorial
Other Rules in This Group
The other checks of the same group, each with its own condition and sources.
- Plain Text Email Addresseseditorial.emails
- Text to HTML Ratioeditorial.text_to_html_ratio
- Word Counteditorial.word_count
- Most Used Wordseditorial.words_used