The domain is a mirror of another domain
A domain whose pages are nearly all copies of another domain’s pages. A mirror competes with the original for the same searches. The audit gives no grade to a mirror, because it is not a site of its own — it says which one it mirrors.
NoticeINDEX-006 · Indexation · checked once for the whole site
Where it usually comes from
An old domain kept online after a rebrand, a country domain serving the same shop, or a staging copy left open to the public.
How to fix it
- Redirect the mirror domain to the original with a 301, page by page.
- If both must stay online, point the canonicals of the mirror at the original.
How to check it yourself
Open the same path on both domains. If the pages are identical and neither redirects, one of them is a mirror.
What it looks like in a report
Notice The domain mirrors www.example.com: 96% of its pages are copies.
The audit gives no grade to the mirror; the work is a redirect from it to the original. (An example shop; the numbers are illustrative.)
How the audit counts it
INDEX-006 is a notice in the indexation category, and weighs lightly in that category’s score. It is a fact about the site as a whole, so it is reported once, not once per page.
If the finding is deliberate on your site, it can be accepted as intentional in the report. It then leaves the list and the score, and comes back on its own if what it shows changes.
Other indexation checks
- meta robots noindex · INDEX-001
- X-Robots-Tag noindex header · INDEX-002
- Canonical missing · INDEX-003
- Canonical to another page · INDEX-004
- Relative canonical · INDEX-005
Find it on your site
A Trakis audit runs this check and the other 65 on your site, and tells you on how many pages each one sits. Or go back to all the rules.