Read the site map graph#

Map view draws the crawl as a diagram, with one card per location, arranged by how their URL paths nest. To open it, select the second of the two icon buttons above the results.

The grid tells you what the crawl found. The map tells you how the site is shaped, which is the faster way to spot a branch of a site that behaves differently from the rest.

What the edges mean#

Edges follow URL path nesting, not the order the crawler discovered things. A location under /features/email-analysis hangs from /features if that location exists. If it does not, the location hangs from the nearest ancestor that does.

The obvious reading is wrong, so be clear about this. The map does not show which page linked to which. It shows how the URL space is organised, and the same set of URLs always produces the same diagram.

Read a location card#

Each card carries a coloured band naming what kind of location it is: PAGE in blue, FORM in purple, API in green, and ASSET in grey.

Below that sits the last segment of the path, or the host for a root, with a coloured dot and the HTTP status code. Green is a success, blue a redirect or an informational status, red a client error, and purple a server error.

A card may also carry a coloured dot on its header band, marking the worst severity among that location's findings, and an ORPHAN tag.

The ORPHAN tag#

The ORPHAN tag means no crawled page links to that location. The crawler reached it only through the sitemap, the seed URL, or a URL it already knew.

That is often the most interesting thing on the map. Users cannot navigate to a page that nothing links to. Such a page is often an old version left in place, an administrative page, or something no one intended to be public.

Orphan tags appear only after the crawl completes, because the crawler cannot judge reachability until it reads every page. The tag never appears on the seed URL.

Zoom, pan and filter#

Scroll to zoom, drag to pan. The toolbar sits at the bottom of the graph with buttons to fit the whole map to the view, zoom in, and zoom out.

The filter box beside them matches URLs as you type. Cards that do not match dim rather than disappear, and an edge stays visible while either end of it still matches, so a filtered map keeps its structure instead of falling apart. A Clear filter button appears after you type something.

Zoom far out, and plain coloured blocks replace the cards. At that scale you read the distribution of kinds across a large site, not individual URLs.

Select a card to select that location and fill the detail pane below. A row in the locations grid does exactly the same. Select empty space to clear the pane.

Before a crawl finds anything, the view reads No locations to map yet.