📘 Field descriptions for hreflang tag analysis, including incoming hreflang counts, validity, error types, and x-default coverage.
Overview
Rel Anchors fields analyze hreflang tags, the HTML attributes that tell search engines which language and regional versions of a page exist. Botify evaluates both incoming hreflang (tags on other pages pointing to this URL) and outgoing hreflang (tags on this page pointing to other language variants), flagging misconfigured or missing reciprocal tags.
Datasets and API collection
Available in: SiteCrawler · RealKeywords
For API users: These fields are available in the Crawl BQL collection.
Incoming Hreflang
These fields describe hreflang tags on other pages that point to this URL as a language/region variant.
Field name | API identifier | Kind | Type | Description |
No. of Incoming Hreflang |
| metric | integer | The total number of hreflang tags on other pages that point to this URL. |
No. of Valid Incoming Hreflang |
| metric | integer | The number of correctly configured incoming hreflang tags pointing to this URL. |
No. of Invalid Incoming Hreflang |
| metric | integer | The number of misconfigured or invalid incoming hreflang tags pointing to this URL. |
Invalid Incoming Hreflang: Error Types |
| dimension | string | The error types found in invalid incoming hreflang tags pointing to this URL (e.g., missing reciprocal tag, invalid language code). |
Invalid Incoming Hreflang: Sources and Values |
| dimension | string | A sample of the source URLs and error details for invalid incoming hreflang tags pointing to this URL. |
Receives x-default From Incoming Hreflang |
| dimension | boolean | Whether this URL is designated as the x-default fallback in an incoming hreflang tag — meaning it serves users whose language or region doesn't match any other variant. |
Outgoing Hreflang
These fields describe hreflang tags on this page pointing to its language and region variants.
Field name | API identifier | Kind | Type | Description |
No. of Outgoing Hreflang |
| metric | integer | The total number of hreflang tags on this page pointing to language and region variants. |
No. of Valid Outgoing Hreflang |
| metric | integer | The number of correctly configured outgoing hreflang tags on this page. |
No. of Invalid Outgoing Hreflang |
| metric | integer | The number of misconfigured or invalid outgoing hreflang tags on this page. |
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