# Severity Rubric

## Critical
- Likely to block crawling or indexation of important commercial pages.
- Likely to create large-scale duplicate or canonical errors.
- Likely to break structured data trust on strategic templates.

## High
- Likely to materially reduce rankings, CTR, or discoverability on important page groups.
- Affects high-value categories, product templates, or core internal-link systems.

## Medium
- Noticeable quality gap or missed opportunity, but not a severe blocker.
- Often template-level improvements, partial metadata gaps, or incomplete linking coverage.

## Low
- Nice-to-have improvements, polish items, or issues with limited SEO impact.

## Finding format
- Severity
- Area
- Affected page type or module
- What is wrong
- Why it matters
- Recommended fix
- Validation note if runtime confirmation is still needed