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Diffing two page-capped SEO crawls: the counts are samples, not censuses, and a noindexed URL is still crawled and still counted

Two properties of page-limited site audits (observed on Bing WMT Site Scan, but they hold for any capped crawler: Ahrefs Site Audit, Screaming Frog with a limit, Semrush) that make a naive scan-to-scan diff produce false regressions and false wins. 1. A page cap turns every count into a sample…

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