Crawl depth counts the link hops between the seed URL and a page. The homepage is depth 0, pages it links to are depth 1, and so on.
Most crawlers let you cap the depth to keep a crawl small. Depth 0 means fetch only the URLs you supplied and follow nothing.
Pages buried many clicks deep tend to be crawled less often and receive less internal link equity. Important pages should sit close to the homepage.
A sudden jump in depth after a redesign often means navigation links were removed.
VisibilityKit Crawler records the depth of every URL it finds, so you can spot important pages that are buried too deep. Setting depth to 0 turns a crawl into a URL list check.
Keep key pages within three clicks of the homepage where you can. There is no hard rule, but deeper pages get less attention.
No. Folder depth is how many slashes are in the path. Crawl depth is how many clicks it takes to reach the page.
Linking between pages on the same website to help visitors, search engines and AI crawlers find and understand content.
A page that exists on your site but has no internal links pointing to it.
Crawling only a supplied list of URLs, without following their links.
How many URLs a search engine is willing and able to crawl on your site in a given period.
The PageRank algorithm computed over your own site's internal links, showing which pages your link structure treats as most important.
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