URL: /rules/url/parameters

---
title: "URL Parameters"
description: "Checks for excessive URL parameters"
---

Checks for excessive URL parameters

| | |
|---|---|
| **Rule ID** | `url/parameters` |
| **Category** | [URL Structure](/rules/url) |
| **Scope** | Per-page |
| **Severity** | info |
| **Weight** | 3/10 |

## Solution

Excessive URL parameters can cause crawl budget waste and duplicate content. Each parameter combination creates a unique URL. Use parameter handling in Google Search Console to tell Google how to handle parameters. Consider using path segments instead of parameters for important content. Filter/sort parameters should be handled with canonical tags or robots meta.

## Enable / Disable

### Disable this rule

```toml squirrel.toml
[rules]
disable = ["url/parameters"]
```

### Disable all URL Structure rules

```toml squirrel.toml
[rules]
disable = ["url/*"]
```

### Enable only this rule

```toml squirrel.toml
[rules]
enable = ["url/parameters"]
disable = ["*"]
```