B
Evidence Grade B
Graded
accuracy verified by the review judge
Safe to Cite
Recent
40%
40% -- crawl efficiency improvement for sites with optimized internal linking (2025)
Sites with optimized internal linking see a 40% improvement in crawl efficiency according to SEMrush SEO toolkit report.
Attribution:
View source
Lighthouse Research Team
Last verified:
·
How we verify data →
Source verified
Evidence graded
Value
40%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2025
Entity
Evidence Quality
B
Strong, reliable evidence
Sourced from a well-regarded research firm or industry leader with transparent methodology and a reasonably large sample.
Single source - not yet corroborated
Score breakdown
Extraction
50
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
SEMrush
Primary
Tier C
https://kreativstreet.com/resources/blog/technical-seo-audit-service/ ↗
Source Article
How to Find and Cure Most Common SEO Problems Using Technical SEO Audit
In the ever-changing digital landscape, optimizing your website for search engines is crucial. A professional technical SEO audit service is very much at the heart of this, allowing you to identify and correct problems that may prevent you from performing well in search engine rankings. This compreh…
Original Research
SEMrush
· Original study ↗
Methodology
Cited from SEMrush SEO toolkit report by third-party blog
Methodology documented
Segmentation
Industrymarketing
Cite this stat
Plain Text
sites with optimized internal linking: 40% crawl efficiency improvement. Source: SEMrush (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/internal-linking-crawl-efficiency-40
HTML Embed
<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/internal-linking-crawl-efficiency-40" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>40%</strong> -- crawl efficiency improvement for sites with optimized internal linking<br><small>Source: SEMrush (2025) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/internal-linking-crawl-efficiency-40" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
Share
Related Statistics
Use this data in your work
Copy the citation, embed the widget, or explore thousands more verified marketing statistics -- all free.