Which of your pages do your own links actually vote for?
Rank your pages by internal links, with nav and footer noise stripped out. Finds orphan pages, broken links and anything buried too deep.
- Separates contextual links from sitewide nav and footer links
- Finds sitemap URLs that nothing on the site links to
- Reports click depth, broken internal links and stray nofollows
Free, no signup, no rate limit. Nothing you check is stored.
How to use the internal link checker
Enter your domain
Type your homepage address. You can paste any page — the crawl starts wherever you point it, and depth is measured from there.
Let it crawl
It walks up to 25 pages breadth-first, obeying your robots.txt. Breadth-first matters: it is what makes the depth number mean clicks from your starting page rather than an arbitrary walk order.
Read the ranking, not the raw counts
Nav and footer links are stripped out of the ranking. What is left is the pages your own editorial links vote for.
Fix orphans first, then depth
A page nothing links to is invisible in a way no amount of content fixes. After that, pull anything commercially important up to within two clicks.
Why sitewide links are excluded from the ranking
Every page carries your nav and footer, so those links are identical for every destination — they cannot distinguish an important page from an unimportant one. A privacy policy linked from the footer of 200 pages collects 200 inbound links and deserves none of the weight that implies. This tool classes any target appearing on 80% or more of the crawled pages as sitewide and reports it separately, so the ranking shows only links someone chose to place. That is the number that reflects what your site actually says about itself.
What an orphan page costs you
An orphan is a page nothing links to. It usually sits in the sitemap, so a crawler can discover it once, but there is no path to it by following links — and following links is how engines judge whether a page matters and how often to come back. Orphans are the most common reason a page stays unindexed on a site that is otherwise healthy. The fix is rarely technical: it is one contextual link from a page that is already crawled well.
Why click depth changes what gets indexed
Crawl frequency falls off sharply with distance from your entry point. A page two clicks from the homepage gets revisited regularly; the same page at four clicks may be fetched once and left alone for months. That matters most for anything whose value depends on being current — pricing, availability, comparison tables. If a page earns money, it belongs within two clicks, and a footer or hub link is usually the cheapest way to get it there.
Questions about this tool
- How do I check my internal links?
- Enter your domain. This crawls up to 25 pages breadth-first from that address, records every internal link it finds, and ranks your pages by how many other pages link to them. It obeys your robots.txt, so anything you have disallowed is skipped and reported rather than fetched.
- Why does this ignore my nav and footer links?
- Because they appear on every page, they carry no information about which pages matter. A page linked from the footer looks well-linked to a naive counter while having no editorial support at all. Any target appearing on 80% or more of the crawled pages is classed as sitewide and shown separately.
- What is an orphan page?
- A page nothing links to. It is usually in the sitemap, so a crawler can find it once, but there is no path to it by following links — which is how engines judge whether a page matters. Orphans are the single most common reason a page sits unindexed on an otherwise healthy site.
- How deep is too deep?
- Crawl frequency falls off sharply with click depth. Anything commercially important belongs within two clicks of your homepage. Three or more clicks is where pages start getting crawled rarely and refreshed slowly, which matters most for pages whose value depends on being current.
- Does this check backlinks from other sites?
- No. Backlink counts and Domain Rating only exist inside commercial crawls like Ahrefs and Majestic, and there is no honest free source for either — so we do not pretend to have one. Internal links need no proprietary index, because your own site serves every input. They are also the half of link equity you can change today.
- Why only 25 pages?
- This fetches your pages from our servers, and a free tool crawling a stranger's whole site is not a reasonable thing to do to it. Twenty-five pages breadth-first is enough to characterise link structure and depth. The result says what it covered rather than implying it saw everything.
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