Core Feature

Deep Website Crawling

Recursively discover every page on your website. Our intelligent crawler maps your entire site structure with precision and speed.

Overview

What Is Deep Website Crawling?

Deep website crawling is the systematic process of discovering and visiting every accessible page on your website. Unlike shallow crawls that only check your homepage, our deep crawler follows links recursively—from page to page—until it has mapped your entire site structure.

Think of it like a search engine spider. It starts at your homepage, extracts all the links, visits those pages, extracts their links, and continues this process across multiple levels. This reveals exactly how your content is interconnected and whether search engines can find all your important pages.

Our crawler uses a Breadth-First Search (BFS) algorithm, which explores your website level by level. This ensures complete coverage and makes it easy to understand your site's hierarchy. Pages at depth 0 are your entry points, depth 1 are pages directly linked from entry points, depth 2 are pages linked from depth 1 pages, and so on.

Why Depth Matters for SEO

Search engines like Google have "crawl budgets"—they won't crawl infinitely deep into your site. Pages buried 5+ clicks away from your homepage often don't get indexed. Our crawler helps you identify these orphaned pages and fix your internal linking structure.

Capabilities

Crawling Features

Enterprise-grade crawling technology designed for accuracy and speed

Depth Control

Crawl from surface level to 10+ levels deep. Control exactly how far you want to explore your website structure.

Concurrent Processing

Configurable parallel requests (1-20 concurrent) for blazing fast crawls. Process multiple pages simultaneously without overwhelming your server.

Domain Protection

Strict same-domain enforcement prevents crawling external sites. Your audit stays focused on your website only.

External Link Tracking

Discover all external links without following them. Understand your outbound link profile for SEO analysis.

Duplicate Prevention

Advanced URL normalization prevents duplicate crawls. Query parameters and fragments handled intelligently.

Smart Filtering

Automatically skips non-HTML resources (PDFs, images, videos). Focuses on crawlable content that matters for SEO.

Process

How The Crawler Works

Understanding the technology behind deep website crawling

1

Start Point

Enter your website URL. The crawler begins at your homepage or specified starting URL.

2

BFS Algorithm

Uses Breadth-First Search to explore level by level. Ensures systematic, complete coverage of your site structure.

3

Link Extraction

Parses HTML to extract all hyperlinks. Categorizes them as internal or external, tracks rel attributes.

4

Duplicate Detection

URL normalization prevents crawling the same page twice. Even with different query parameters or fragments.

5

Depth Tracking

Every page is tagged with its depth level. Control how deep to crawl based on your needs and plan limits.

6

Database Storage

All data stored in SQLite for memory efficiency. Handle massive websites without running out of memory.

Use Cases

Who Benefits From Deep Crawling?

Real-world applications across different industries

SEO Audit Agencies
Perform comprehensive site audits for clients. Discover indexation issues and crawlability problems before they impact rankings.
Save 10+ hours per audit
Large Enterprise Websites
Map entire site architectures with thousands of pages. Identify orphaned content and broken internal link structures.
Handle 50K+ pages
E-commerce Platforms
Ensure all product pages are discoverable. Validate that category hierarchies and filters are properly crawlable.
99.9% accuracy
Content Publishers
Verify all articles and blog posts are linked. Find content that search engines might miss due to poor internal linking.
Real-time results
Technical Details

Performance Specifications

Built for speed, designed for scale

Crawl Speed
50 pages in ~10 seconds
With concurrency of 10
Memory Usage
40-70MB heap
Regardless of site size
Max Pages
Up to 50,000 pages
Pro plan
Max Depth
10 levels
Pro plan
Page Limit Control
Configurable
Prevent unbounded crawls
Algorithm
BFS (Breadth-First)
Level-by-level exploration

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