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If you're new to Ahrefs and want to run your first SEO audit, the fastest path is: open Site Explorer, enter your target URL, review the Overview for a health snapshot, then dig into Organic Keywords, Top Pages, and Site Audit to find specific problems. From there, build a short prioritized to-do list instead of trying to fix everything at once.

This tutorial walks through that workflow using a realistic starting scenario, explains what the numbers mean, and shows how to turn findings into actions.

Before You Start: Pick a Narrow Scope

A common beginner mistake is auditing an entire large website on day one. The reports become overwhelming, and you can't tell which issues matter.

Instead, choose one of these starting points:

• A single important page (your homepage or a key product/service page)
• A small site (under ~50 pages, e.g., a personal blog or small business site)
• One section of a bigger site (e.g., /blog/)

For this tutorial, assume you're auditing a small business site with about 30 pages. The same steps scale up later.

You'll need an Ahrefs account to follow along. Ahrefs offers paid plans, and pricing and feature limits change over time, so check the current Pricing page for what's included in each tier before committing.

Step 1: Enter Your Target in Site Explorer

Site Explorer is Ahrefs' core tool for analyzing any website or URL.

1. Open Site Explorer from the top navigation.
2. In the search box, paste your domain (e.g., example.com).
3. Choose the Exact URL or Domain mode depending on scope. For a full-site view, use Domain or Prefix; for a single page, use Exact URL.
4. Press Enter.

You'll land on the Overview report. Don't try to absorb everything — focus on four numbers first.

Reading the Overview Snapshot

Important caveat: Ahrefs' traffic and keyword numbers are estimates based on its own data. They won't match Google Search Console or your analytics exactly. Treat them as directional, not absolute.

Step 2: See What You Already Rank For

Go to Organic Keywords in the left sidebar. This shows queries where your site appears in search results.

Sort by Traffic (descending) to see which pages bring the most estimated visitors. Then look for:

• Keywords ranking in positions 4–15 — these are often the easiest wins. A small content or on-page improvement can push them onto page one.
• Keywords with high volume but low position — potential opportunities if the topic is relevant.
• Irrelevant keywords — if you rank for something off-topic, it may signal thin or mismatched content.

Write down 5–10 of the position 4–15 keywords. These become your first optimization targets.

Step 3: Find Your Best and Weakest Pages

Open Top Pages. This ranks your URLs by estimated organic traffic.

Look for two things:

1. Your top performers — understand what topics and formats work. Can you create more content like this?
2. Pages with traffic but poor rankings — these may need on-page fixes (title, headings, internal links).

If a page gets zero traffic and targets a topic you care about, it's a candidate for a rewrite or consolidation.

Step 4: Run a Technical Site Audit

Now move to Site Audit. This crawls your site and flags technical and on-page issues.

1. Click Site Audit → New project.
2. Enter your domain and set crawl settings (default is usually fine for a small site).
3. Start the crawl and wait for it to finish.

Once complete, you'll see a Health Score and a list of issues grouped by category.

Which Issues to Fix First

Not all issues are equal. Prioritize in this order:

Ignore low-impact warnings (like minor meta description length) until the big items are handled.

Step 5: Turn Findings Into a To-Do List

You now have raw data. Convert it into a short, actionable list. Example:

1. Fix 3 broken links found in Site Audit.
2. Rewrite title tags on 5 pages with duplicate titles.
3. Improve 4 pages ranking in positions 6–12 by adding missing subtopics and internal links.
4. Remove or update 2 thin pages with no traffic.

Keep the list to 5–10 items max for your first audit. Finishing a short list beats starting a long one.

Common Beginner Mistakes

• Chasing every red flag. Site Audit flags many minor issues. Fix what affects rankings and users first.
• Trusting estimates as exact numbers. Ahrefs data is modeled, not measured from your analytics.
• Auditing a huge site too early. Start small to learn the interface.
• Ignoring search intent. A page can be technically perfect but still fail if it doesn't match what searchers want.
• Forgetting to re-crawl. After fixes, run Site Audit again to confirm improvements.

Where to Go Next

Once your first audit is done:

• Compare with competitors using Site Explorer's Competing Domains and Content Gap reports.
• Track keyword rankings over time with Rank Tracker.
• Explore backlink opportunities in the Backlinks and Link Intersect reports.
• Set up recurring Site Audit crawls so new issues surface automatically.

Your first audit isn't about perfection — it's about building a repeatable habit: enter a target, read the key reports, pick the highest-impact fixes, and act. Do that once a month and your site's health compounds.

Folia is a PaperMC project that aims to bring true multithreading and regionalized ticking to Minecraft servers, with the goal of better scalability and performance while fixing long-standing issues that limit how far a single server can scale. According to Paper Chan Posts, Folia is a fork of Paper started by Spottedleaf — described there as a Minecraft optimization legend — with work beginning in August 2020, just before Tuinity merged with Paper. If you run or plan to run a Minecraft server and have hit the ceiling of what one main thread can handle, Folia is the project to understand; if you just want a stable, well-supported server today, Paper remains the safer default.

What Folia actually is

• A PaperMC organization project. Folia sits alongside Paper under the same organization rather than being a separate, unrelated server fork.
• A fork of Paper. It builds on Paper's codebase instead of starting from Vanilla or Spigot.
• Led by Spottedleaf. The Paper Chan Posts writeup credits Spottedleaf as the author, and notes the project began in August 2020, shortly before Tuinity merged into Paper.
• Still described as a project with a goal, not a finished replacement. The stated aim is true multithreading and regionalized ticking — the writeup frames this as the culmination of prior optimization work rather than a drop-in upgrade you should assume is ready for every server.

The core idea: regionalized ticking

In a standard Minecraft server, much of the world simulation runs on a single main thread. That thread ticks chunks, entities, and other game logic in sequence, so as your player count and loaded area grow, the main thread becomes the bottleneck. Adding CPU cores does not help much, because the work is not split across them.

Folia's approach is to divide the world into regions and tick those regions in parallel, so multiple threads can handle different parts of the world at once. That is what "regionalized ticking" means in practice, and it is the mechanism behind the promised scalability gains. The writeup also notes Folia is intended to fix "a few long-standing issues that have been the limiting factor to scaling up a Minecraft server" — in other words, problems that Paper's single-threaded model could not solve no matter how much it was optimized.

A useful way to think about it: Paper made the single main thread do less wasted work; Folia tries to remove the single-thread limit itself.

What this means for you

Where to read the original

Paper Chan Posts (paper-chan.moe) publishes the Folia writeup under its Posts section, dated Mar 11, 2023, at roughly an 11-minute read. The same site also hosts related guides — "Paper vs Vanilla Minecraft," a Windows self-hosting guide for Paper, a Nether Piglin farm troubleshooting guide, and a Minecraft client optimization guide — which are useful context if you are deciding between Paper, Vanilla, and Folia for your own server.

Start by confirming your Paper build is current, then work through the farm's environment (biome, difficulty, design version) before touching server configs like per-player-mob-spawn and mobcaps. If everything checks out and the farm still fails, test with plugins disabled to rule out interference. This order matters because a stale Paper build or a wrong biome will break the farm no matter how your mob-spawning settings look, and you need OP permission or backend console access to run most of these checks.

The steps below follow the troubleshooting sequence published on Paper Chan Posts (paper-chan.moe) for a Nether Piglin farm, last updated for Paper version 26.1.2.

Step 0: Make sure your Paper is up to date

Paper fixes bugs relatively quickly, so an outdated build can leave you debugging a problem that's already been patched. Update to the latest release before doing anything else — if the farm starts working after the update, you're done and can skip the rest.

Step 1: Check the biome

Piglin spawning depends on the biome the farm sits in. Verify the farm is actually inside a biome where piglins spawn, and that no biome change (from a datapack, world edit, or version update) has altered the area.

Step 2: Check world difficulty

Mob spawning behavior is tied to difficulty. Confirm the world difficulty is set to the level your farm design assumes — a farm built for one difficulty setting can behave differently on another.

Step 3: Confirm the farm isn't outdated

Farm designs break when game mechanics change. Check whether the tutorial or schematic you built from still matches the current game version. If the design predates a spawning or AI change, the farm may simply no longer work as written.

Step 4: Set per-player-mob-spawn to true

This is a Paper-specific setting that changes how mobs spawn relative to players. If it's set to false, mob spawning behaves differently than the farm design expects. Set it to true and re-test.

Step 5: Check your mobcaps

Mobcaps limit how many mobs can exist in an area. If the cap is already saturated — by mobs elsewhere in the world, by a previous farm, or by accumulated entities — new piglins won't spawn. Check the relevant mobcap values and clear out excess mobs if needed.

Step 6: Check other related server configs

Beyond per-player-mob-spawn and mobcaps, other spawning-related settings can interfere. Review your server config for anything that restricts spawn rates, spawn ranges, or entity limits, and compare against what the farm design requires.

Step 7: Test without plugins

Plugins can silently change spawning, entity behavior, or chunk loading. Disable your plugins and run the farm again. If it works without plugins, re-enable them one at a time to find the culprit.

Quick reference

Prerequisites

You need OP permission or backend console access to run these checks. Without it, you can't inspect or change the server configs covered in steps 4 through 6.

Common sticking points

• Skipping the update. It's tempting to jump straight to configs, but a stale build wastes time on problems that are already fixed.
• Assuming the biome is fine. Biome changes can happen quietly through datapacks or world edits, so verify rather than assume.
• Testing with plugins enabled. If you troubleshoot configs while plugins are running, you can't tell which layer is causing the failure.

According to Paper Chan Posts, Paper is a performance-focused Minecraft server software that aims to provide the best multiplayer experience while fixing many long-standing exploits and bugs that exist in Vanilla or Spigot Minecraft. If you run a multiplayer server and care about performance, exploit resistance, and long-term maintainability, Paper is the side to pick. If you want a strictly unmodified, "as-Mojang-shipped" experience and don't mind weaker performance and known bugs, stay on Vanilla.

The core difference: performance-first design

The site's "Paper vs Vanilla Minecraft" post frames the split clearly:

• Vanilla is the official server jar shipped by Mojang. It defines the baseline game behavior, but it is not tuned for large or busy multiplayer servers.
• Paper is a fork built around performance. Its stated goal is the best multiplayer experience while also fixing exploits and bugs inherited from Vanilla or Spigot.

So the comparison isn't "different game" vs "same game" — it's the same game with a different server implementation underneath.

Technical differences the site highlights

Paper Chan Posts gives two concrete examples of where Paper diverges from Vanilla at the engine level:

The Starlight rewrite and the new chunk system are the two named technical pillars. The chunk work is explicitly described as a step toward true parallel chunk ticking in the future — meaning it's a foundation, not the finished end state.

What this means for gameplay

Because Paper fixes exploits and bugs that exist in Vanilla, gameplay on a Paper server can differ from Vanilla in practice. The site notes that as Paper gains popularity, the differences between Paper and Vanilla gameplay have become more noticeable — this is a direct consequence of Paper's fix-first philosophy rather than an attempt to change the game.

Practical implications:

• Redstone and farm behavior may differ where Vanilla behavior depended on a bug or exploit that Paper patched.
• Multiplayer scaling is better on Paper, which is the whole point of the project.
• Plugin ecosystem — Paper is the common base for Spigot-lineage plugins, so it's the practical choice if you want plugins at all.

How to choose

Pick Paper if:

• You run a multiplayer server, especially one with more than a handful of players.
• You want exploits and long-standing bugs fixed.
• You plan to use plugins.
• You want the performance work (Starlight, new chunk system) that Vanilla doesn't have.

Pick Vanilla if:

• You need behavior to match Mojang's server exactly, bug-for-bug.
• You're testing or reproducing something that must be identical to the official jar.
• You have no performance or plugin requirements.

Related reading on the site

Paper Chan Posts also hosts adjacent guides that go deeper if you've made the Paper choice:

• "How to self-host a Paper Minecraft server on Windows" — a beginner walkthrough covering prerequisites, installing Java, creating a Minecraft folder, creating start.bat, downloading Paper, launching the server, and joining locally.
• "Folia - Multithreading Coming to your Minecraft server" — covers Folia, a PaperMC project by Spottedleaf aimed at true multithreading and regionalized ticking, started in August 2020.
• "Minecraft Basic Troubleshooting Steps for [Nether Piglin Farm]" — a step-by-step diagnostic guide (check Paper version, biome, world difficulty, farm version, per-player-mob-spawn, mobcaps, related server configs, and testing without plugins).

The takeaway from the comparison post itself: Paper and Vanilla are the same game on different server software, and the choice comes down to whether you prioritize performance, fixes, and plugins (Paper) or exact Mojang behavior (Vanilla).

Paper Chan Posts is a small, informal guide site focused on Minecraft server software, especially the PaperMC ecosystem. Its own description calls it "a fun little website with various guides," and the published posts back that up: they cover server optimization, troubleshooting, self-hosting, and comparisons between Paper and Vanilla Minecraft. If you run a Paper server, or you're deciding whether to, this is a place to find practical write-ups rather than official documentation.

What the site covers

The homepage lists posts under a "Posts" heading, with several tagged as News, Featured, Optimization Guide, Customization Guide, or "Paper chan." The topics cluster around a few clear areas:

• Server performance and optimization — for example, a guide to Folia, described as a PaperMC project aiming for true multithreading and regionalized ticking, started by Spottedleaf in August 2020 just before Tuinity merged with Paper.
• Troubleshooting — a step-by-step guide for a Nether Piglin farm, structured as prerequisites followed by numbered checks (biome, world difficulty, whether the farm is outdated, the per-player-mob-spawn setting, mobcaps, other server configs, and testing without plugins).
• Self-hosting — a beginner-oriented walkthrough for running a Paper server at home on Windows, covering installing Java, creating a Minecraft folder, creating a start.bat, downloading Paper, launching the server, and joining locally.
• Paper vs Vanilla — an explainer on how Paper differs from Vanilla or Spigot, mentioning the rewritten light engine Starlight and a new chunk system as a step toward parallel chunk ticking.
• Client-side optimization — a guide to Minecraft client optimization.

Who it's for

The content assumes you're a Minecraft server administrator or an interested player. Some guides state their prerequisites directly — the Piglin farm troubleshooting post notes you need OP permission or backend console access, and the Windows self-hosting guide says it's aimed at users with zero prior server hosting knowledge. That mix means you can start from scratch on hosting, but troubleshooting and optimization posts expect you to already have a server you can configure.

How to read it

Posts carry a "last updated" date and a target Paper version, which matters because Minecraft server behavior changes between versions. For example, the Piglin farm guide is marked as last updated June 4th, 2026 for Paper version 26.1.2, and the Windows self-hosting guide as June 1st, 2026 for Paper version 26.1. Before following any step-by-step guide, check that its stated version is close to the one you're running; if it isn't, treat the steps as a starting point and verify settings against your own server.

The site is a guide collection, not an official PaperMC resource, so use it for practical walkthroughs and then confirm version-specific details against current upstream documentation.