Low-Quality Category Page Checker

Quickly find and audit low-quality category pages that harm SEO and waste crawl resources.

Low-quality category pages can quietly weaken your ecommerce SEO performance. They often have no products or very few, send weak signals to search engines, waste crawl resources, and fail to help shoppers find what they’re looking for.

Use this free checker to scan your store and instantly identify low-quality category or collection URLs that may be dragging down your visibility and conversions.

What Are Low-Quality Category Pages?

Low-quality category pages are URLs in your ecommerce catalog that don’t meaningfully help users or search engines. They typically:

Have few or no products
Lack unique, helpful content
Offer little search visibility
Fail to capture broad buying intent

These pages create poor user experiences and contribute to wasted crawl budget and rankings dilution.

Why These Pages Hurt SEO

Search engines prioritize pages that provide value and relevance. Category pages are meant to serve bigger search intent and guide browsing and keyword discovery. When they don’t, they:

Trigger low-quality signals
Compete with stronger landing pages
Reduce internal link equity to core categories
Eat into crawl budget without benefit

Identifying and fixing low-quality category pages helps the rest of your site perform better in organic results.

How This Tool Works

This tool:

Discovers category or collection URLs from your store’s sitemap
Checks product count, structure, and content signals
Flags low-quality pages and potential crawl waste
Generates a downloadable report with action recommendations

After scanning, you can decide whether to:

Improve content
Consolidate or remove the page
Redirect to a stronger category
Apply noindex where appropriate

Who This Tool Is For

This checker is ideal for:

Ecommerce store owners
SEO managers
Agencies auditing technical catalog SEO
Brands with large or complex product catalogs

If you want better search visibility and a cleaner catalog structure, this scan will give you clarity quickly.

Optional FAQ Section

What counts as a low-quality category page?
Pages that add little value to users or search engines due to minimal products or thin signals.

Does this only work for Shopify?
No it supports multiple ecommerce platforms now and will expand further.

Is login required?
No, the scanner uses publicly accessible sitemap URLs only.