This means that the URL in question has a canonical element whereby the canonical URL itself resolved in an error (5XX).
The problem with this error is twofold:
This Hint will trigger for any internal URL which contains a canonical link element where the canonical URL returned a 5XX error when Sitebulb tried to crawl it.
Consider the URL: https://example.com/page-a
The Hint would trigger for this URL if it had a canonical URL pointing at another internal page,
<link rel="canonical" href="https://example.com/page-b" />
where this canonical URL https://example/com/page-b responds with a 5XX error:
HTTP/... 500 Internal Server Error
...
Since the problem is twofold, the solution is also twofold, and both solutions are affected by the scale of the problem.
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