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Structure

The shape of your site rather than its health: which sections are largest, how far pages sit from the homepage, and the same hierarchy drawn three different ways.

How to get there#

Explore → Structure.

  1. 1

    Open Structure in the sidebar

    After Social.

  2. 2

    Overview first, then pick a drawing

    The tab you are on is saved in the address, so a link you share opens the same view.

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The Structure overview: four stat cards across the top, then Largest sections with share bars, Pages by click depth, and Structure signals.
The Overview tab: the largest sections, pages by click depth, and structural signals.

The four tabs#

A summary, then three ways of drawing the same hierarchy.

FieldAnswersWhat it does
OverviewIs the shape sensible?Which sections hold most of the site, how many clicks from the homepage your pages sit, and the crawl's structural signals.
MapWhere is the weight?Nested rectangles sized by page count and coloured by depth. The quickest way to spot that one folder is two thirds of the site.
DiagramHow does it branch?The same hierarchy as connected boxes, top to bottom or left to right, with a fullscreen view. Good for presentations.
TreeWhat is in there exactly?The hierarchy as expandable rows, for when you want page names rather than proportions.

Map

The Structure screen's Map tab: nested rectangles for each folder, sized by page count and shaded by click depth, with colour-mode chips above.
The Map tab. Size means page count, and colour means how deep those pages sit.

Why click depth matters#

Crawlers find deep pages late, or not at all.

Depth is how many clicks a page is from the homepage. Anything past three or four is reached late by search engines, and often not at all by AI crawlers, which usually give up sooner. A large section sitting at depth six is effectively unpublished.

Nothing here comes from the checks

Every figure on this screen is a crawled page or a link between two of them, so turning a check group off leaves this screen unchanged. Links shows the same crawl from the point of view of the links rather than the pages.

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