Remediation

A canonical URL is declared and resolves to the same page.

markup.canonicaldiscoverabilityweight 2deterministicauto-fix available

Why it matters

Without <link rel="canonical">, agents cannot tell which version of a URL is the source of truth. Tracking parameters, A/B variants, and pagination produce duplicate content; agents cite whichever URL they happened to crawl, which fragments your authority across copies.

Underlying specification: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/consolidate-duplicate-urls

How to fix

Add `<link rel="canonical" href="https://your-domain/canonical-url">` in the <head> of every page.
Self-reference: a page at /docs/quickstart canonicalises to /docs/quickstart, not /docs.
Strip tracking parameters (utm_*, gclid, etc.) from the canonical URL.
For paginated lists, point page 2+ at page 1 only when the content overlaps; otherwise self-canonicalise each page.

Generated snippet

The snippet below uses your-domain.example as a placeholder. Replace it with your actual host before deploying. For a fix tailored to your live site, run a scan and open the per-domain remediation page.

Generated fixinline snippet→ <head>

AgentSpeed couldn't find a canonical link on the page. Agents use canonical to dedupe quoted citations. Without it, the same content cited twice from /page and /page?utm=foo looks like two distinct sources.

<!-- Place inside <head>. Replace /<path> with the canonical URL of THIS page. -->
<link rel="canonical" href="https://your-domain.example/<path>" />

paste inside <head>

›Use the absolute URL form (`https://...`), not relative.
›The href should be the canonical page URL, not the request URL, so strip query params, tracking codes, and trailing slashes consistently.

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