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Technical eligibility, control 18 of 20

T-18 Make pagination and incremental loading discoverable

P1Needs your evidence

Distinct paginated resources need stable discoverable URLs; loading items only after an interaction may leave content undiscovered.

Priority
High priority.
Hard gate
No
Change class
AUTO_WITH_TEST: A candidate requiring relevant tests.
Quality bucket
Not scored

Evidence to review

  • Crawl of the full sequence, direct-request checks and item-coverage comparison with the database.

How to implement

  1. Provide crawlable next-page paths or equivalent discoverable pagination.
  2. Do not canonicalise all genuinely distinct pages to page one.
  3. Ensure refresh and direct entry return the correct slice.
  4. Test final-page, empty and out-of-range cases without creating infinite indexable sequences.

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Needs your evidence. No automated check covers this control, so it stays UNKNOWN until evidence is supplied.

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Part of The UltimateSEO Framework v4.3, catalogue dated 2026-10-14. Evidence states, control states and the publish gate are explained on the hub.

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