External link timeout

How to fix it

Verify in a browser. Replace if the destination is reliably slow or unreachable.

Sibling checks in this category

• External link redirects - An outbound external link redirects, costing user time.
• External link broken (4xx) - An outbound external link returns a 4xx error.
• External link blocked - The external host blocked our crawler. Could be intentional bot blocking.
• External link 5xx - An outbound external link returned a 5xx error.

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