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An orphan page is in your sitemap, but no page on your site links to it. We crawl from your homepage the way a search engine does, compare what we found with your sitemap, and list every page that's stranded.
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The total grows as we discover links, so the bar can slip back a little. You can keep this tab open, or copy the link and come back later.
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A sitemap says a page exists. Links say it matters.
A page nothing links to gets crawled less often and inherits no authority from the rest of your site. Being in the sitemap gets it discovered; it doesn't make it important.
If your navigation, categories and related links never point to a page, the only way in is search — and its orphan status makes ranking in search harder.
An earlier version of our own crawler counted links only between sitemap pages. It reported 80% of a site's pages as orphans; the real figure was 21%. The rest were blog posts linked only from pagination pages that weren't in the sitemap. Links can come from any page, so we follow them all.
Link to it from a relevant hub, category or navigation page. If the page shouldn't exist any more, take it out of the sitemap and redirect or noindex it.
<a href> links in it. Menus that only appear after JavaScript runs, and image-map <area> links, are invisible to this check. Google renders JavaScript, so it may see links we can't.The free audit reads your homepage, robots.txt, sitemap and llms.txt, scores five dimensions, and tells you which fix is worth the most.
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