Title: Chrome Lighthouse Report
Last modified: March 15, 2021

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# Chrome Lighthouse Report

 *  [jim5471](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jim5471/)
 * (@jim5471)
 * [5 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/chrome-lighthouse-report/)
 * I have noticed that the SEO score on one of my customer’s website is poor due
   to the way that WORDPRESS handles nested menu items that do not have an href=
   URL. (Uncrawlable Links issue)
 * Take this nested menu item for example
 *     ```
       GROUPS
               - GROUPS A-C
                           - Page#1
                           - Page#2
                           - etc
               - GROUPS D-L
                           - Page#1
                           - Page#2
                           - etc       
               - etc
       ```
   
 * The GROUP labels have no href=URL but the Pages do.
 * On WORDPRESS the only way I know to create a menu structure like this is to use
   the “Custom Links” option with a dummy URL to first create the menu item – then
   to delete the URL.
 * An index page could be added to each level but the problem with this approach
   is the menu will fail to expand on touch devices as the index page will open 
   instead.
 * So… is there another way of achieving this type of nested layout ?
 * Thanks
    -  This topic was modified 5 years, 3 months ago by [jim5471](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jim5471/).

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 *  [Website Rob](https://wordpress.org/support/users/website-rob/)
 * (@website-rob)
 * [5 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/chrome-lighthouse-report/#post-14183283)
 * For best SEO results, Structured Data is the way to go.
 * [https://schema.org/](https://schema.org/)
    [https://search.google.com/structured-data/testing-tool/](https://search.google.com/structured-data/testing-tool/)
 * If your Theme doesn’t already provide it then I’m sure there is a Plugin that
   will.
 *  Thread Starter [jim5471](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jim5471/)
 * (@jim5471)
 * [5 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/chrome-lighthouse-report/#post-14206076)
 * For anyone asking the same question…
 * Lighthouse rejects several commonly used <a href=”do nothing” solutions.
 * [https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/guidelines/links-crawlable](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/guidelines/links-crawlable)
 * In the end I found that href = “#!” did nothing and wasn’t recognised by Lighthouse
   as invalid.
 * The SEO score then went to 100%
 *  [zionndt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zionndt/)
 * (@zionndt)
 * [4 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/chrome-lighthouse-report/#post-14735556)
 * Confirmed href = “#!” in menu de WordPress correct the error by lighthouse Links
   are not crawlable. nofollow It does not work

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