Answer¶

Any unique link to any HTML page on the primary domain, subdomain (if added), or internal URL (link) is counted as one page.

The scan only counts each unique link once, even if the link occurs multiple times or is present on multiple pages. The image below is an example of a website structure:

The following points explain the structure in the preceding image:

• Primary Domain (page 1) contains three links:
  • Link to page 2
  • Link to page 3
  • Link to page 4.
• Page 2 contains one link:
  • Link to page 5.
• Page 3 contains one link:
  • Link to page 5.
• Page 4 contains one link:
  • Link to page 5.
• Page 5 contains one link:
  • Link to page 1.

The following points explain what the scanner counts in this example:

• 5 unique pages (primary domain URL + 4 URL pages)
• 5 unique links
• 3 occurrences of link 5.

The scanner identifies whether an external link is broken. However, it does not count external links as pages.