Issues

AMP: Missing Canonical

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Missing Canonical

AMP URLs must contain a canonical tag inside their head that points to the regular HTML version of the AMP HTML document, or to itself if no such HTML version exists.

How to Analyse in the SEO Spider

View URLs with this issue in the ‘AMP’ tab and ‘Missing Canonical’ filter, and export all URLs using the ‘Export’ button.

Read our tutorial on ‘How To Audit & Validate Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP)‘.

What Triggers This Issue

This issue is triggered when AMP URLs do not contain a proper canonical tag inside their head that points to the regular HTML version of the AMP HTML document, or to the AMP document itself if no corresponding HTML version exists.

How To Fix

Review the AMP HTML specification and update the AMP to meet the guidelines.

Further Reading

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