Analyze and Check Internal Website Linking with Website Analyzer

You need to scan your website before you can view all the URLs found in the website! If you experience website crawl problems, e.g. get fewer than expected found URLs during website scan, see our article about solving website crawling problems.

If you are interested in viewing how pages interlink, A1 Website Analyzer gives you complete access to view linked to by, redirected to by, used by and lots of other related data. This is useful for finding broken links that give e.g. response code 404 Not Found or response code 301 Moved Permanently errors. You can switch between the information shown in Extended data using the tabs at the bottom.

Note: If the root directory or start search paths themselves give an error response, please remember that these paths were supplied to the website analyzer program in its project settings. Therefore it may be that there are no broken links or similar pointing to these URLs.



Notice that A1 Website Analyzer interpretation of links increases with options like:

• Website scan | Crawler options | Search all link tag types.
• Website scan | Crawler options | Consider <iframe> tags for links.
• Website scan | Crawler options | Try search for links in Javascript and CSS.

You can change how you view URLs found in website scan. Switch between tree outline and flat list. This is especially useful when sorting URLs based on HTTP response code to find all broken links. You can sort the URLs listed by clicking any of the data columns, e.g. R.Code which is short for response code.



Broken links can often be found by looking for URLs that return response code 404 : Not Found and 301 : Moved Permanently. Just check their Linked by, Used by and Redirected by information.

You should also be aware how nofollow, noindex and robots.txt can affect website crawling. If you want A1 Website Analyzer to show all URLs found including those marked noindex you can do so through options:

• Website scan results: Scan website | Crawler options | Apply "webmaster" and "output filters" after website scan stops.

You can always quickly select and view summary information for directories in a website:

• Are you puzzled about URLs with with response code -9 : RedirectIndexFileDirRoot or -11 : MetaRefreshRedirect in scan results? Read about duplicate URLs and how to enable/disable automatic detection of them.
  
  
• Do you have directories with response code 0 : VirtualItem in scan results? Those URLs have not been analyzed because they are not directly linked from anywhere. You can force website analyzer program to include such URLs in website scan by enabling Scan website | Crawler engine | Always scan directories that contain linked URLs.
  
  
  
  

Our website analyzer tool calculates scores for all pages based on internal linking in website. You can also read about sculpting internal link juice.