See which pages are orphaned and how deep the rest sit.

What this check actually measures

A site's internal links are a graph: which pages exist, which of them the sitemap claims, which of them other pages actually point to, and how many clicks sit between home and the rest. This check crawls up to 200 same-host pages — sitemap first, then internal links — and reports orphans, click depth, the most-linked pages, and pages with no outbound links. It stops at 60 seconds and marks the result partial rather than guessing the rest.

The failure modes, and what each one means

Sitemap URLs with no inbound links

A URL in the sitemap that no crawled page links to is an orphan candidate. Crawlers that start from home may never reach it. Fix: link it from a live page, or drop it from the sitemap if it should not be there.

Deep or unreachable pages

Click depth is counted from the URL you pasted. Pages the crawl never reached from home have no depth. A partial crawl can miss a linker, so an orphan on a capped run is a candidate, not a proof.

Pages with no outbound links

A crawled page with no a href to another same-host URL is a dead end in this graph. That can be intentional. It is reported, not scored.

Why it matters for search — and for AI answers

Pages that nothing internal points to are easy to under-crawl. Answer engines that walk your site inherit the same graph: an orphan is a page they may never be handed. This check reports the observed graph on this run. It does not claim a ranking or citation effect.

What the full product adds

This tool crawls once, up to the cap, and does not compare against the last crawl. The TrustGrowth audit keeps a page inventory, files link-graph issues against the pages they affect, and tracks them on a schedule.