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May 2024 - including Copy Monitor Alert Rules to Multiple Projects and All Reports & Errors View Improvements

Andrew Levey
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Sitemap Link Limits Increased

Release Date: May 29th 2024

We previously limited the total number of URLs processed from Sitemaps to 30 million, including both URLs in loc tags and URLs found in links (hreflangs and mobile alternates). This could have resulted in some URLs not being crawled where the total number found exceeded 30m. We now have a separate limit of 15m URLs in loc tags, and 50m hreflang or mobile alternate links. You may see an increase in URLs crawled if your projects were affected by the previous limits.

All Reports & Errors View Improvements

Release Date: May 23rd 2024

We’ve improved the All Reports and Errors views, so you can now add, remove and reorder columns, and sort by any of the columns shown. Changes are stored in local storage, so will be remembered when you revisit the page, but won’t change things for other users. This means you now sort by changes in All Reports and Errors to see which reports are showing the biggest changes. As this makes the Changes tab unnecessary, we’ve removed that.

This is in place for both SEO and accessibility crawls, and will feature in our upcoming site speed (Lighthouse) crawls. With this change, we’ve also updated the changes chart on dashboards, which will now navigate to All Pages with reports automatically sorted by the largest change.

Animated gif of the Lumar Analyze All Reports view, showing the ability to add a column, reorder and sort by a column.

Sitemap Links for Uncrawled URLs Were Not Dropped

Release Date: May 20th 2024

A bug has been fixed where hreflang and mobile alternate links found in Sitemaps were reported as non-reciprocal when the pages where not crawled due to crawl limits. You may see a reduction in the number of alternate links reported, and a reduction in false positive errors in the following reports in crawls that were affected.

  • Non-Reciprocal Mobile/AMP
  • All Non-Reciprocated Hreflang Links
  • Pages with Non-Reciprocated Hreflang Links

Copy Monitor Alert Rules to Multiple Projects

Release Date: May 8th 2024

While previously you could only copy Monitor alert rules to one project at a time, now you can copy to multiple projects in one go. This will help speed up the creation of new alerts for different projects.
To copy the alerts across, click on the alerts icon in the very left-hand navigation (the bell) and then click on Manage Alerts in the top right corner.

Screenshot of the Lumar Monitor notification center, with the notifcation center icon and manage alerts button highlighted.

In the resulting screen, choose the project in the left navigation that you want to copy the alerts from. Click the ‘Copy alert to…’ button in the top right of the screen.

Screenshot of the Lumar Monitor manage alerts screen with a project highlighted in the left navigation, and the copy alerts highlighted.

Use the checkboxes to then choose which projects you want to copy the alerts to. If any existing projects have alerts set up, you’ll see this indicated. If you’re copying an alert rule into a project that already has that rule, it will be overwritten with the new details. Any other alert rules that had been set up, will remain.

Screenshot of the Monitor copy alerts screen, showing two projects with checkboxes marked, indicating that the alerts will be copied to these projects.

Once you’re happy, click continue and you’ll see a progress screen to show that the alerts are being copied. Once this is complete, you’ll get confirmation that the alerts have been successfully copied across. If any alerts cannot be copied for any reason (for example, if you’ve run out of alert rules) then you’ll get a notification of which projects the alerts could not be copied to.