'Duplicate' home page with backslash in SEM Rush

[bronskibeat]

I've noticed that my home page is appearing twice in Semrush's Crawled Pages / ILR report.

The one with the "/" at the end is giving a score of 100 - the other has a score of 75.

Has anyone experienced this before and is it a problem?

 

[bronskibeat]

Just wanted to bump this up. Is it a stupid question?

 

[NeedMyLink]

This is a common issue where a trailing slash and non-trailing slash treated as separate pages. It's best to set a canonical URL or implement a 301 redirect from one version to the other to consolidate the link equity.

 

[bronskibeat]

This is a common issue where a trailing slash and non-trailing slash treated as separate pages. It's best to set a canonical URL or implement a 301 redirect from one version to the other to consolidate the link equity.

Thank you. So even though it's a home page you would suggest a 301 from one to the other? I do have a canonical but not sure it's sufficient.

Looking for some technical support on this.

(Edit - happy to pay for some support)