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The closed set

Unreadable is not one problem.

When a machine cannot read a page, the reason matters more than the verdict. A site that refuses crawlers made a decision. A site that renders only in JavaScript did not. A site with clean HTML and no markup is one afternoon away from being fixed. Those are different problems with different costs, so they are recorded separately.

This is the whole list. There is no ninth reason and no free-text judgement of your site anywhere in this product.

To find out which of these applies to your own site, the check on the front page reads one page and returns one of exactly these eight answers.

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