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title: "How does the Acquia Web Governance scan find and handle links?"
date: "2023-06-15T11:04:33+00:00"
summary: "Discover how Acquia Web Governance scans your website, identifies unique links, and handles various URL formats for comprehensive content analysis."
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The Acquia Web Governance scan follows the links on your website to find all of the content that is present on your domain.

A link is a unique URL that points to a HTML page, or an asset like an image, JavaScript file, CSS file, or documents. All links are unique, any difference in a URL (such as a single letter change) creates a distinct link.

Examples of unique links are:

*   https://domain.tld/webaccessibility and https://domain.tld/web-accessibility
*   https://domain.tld/pageId=23 and https://domain.tld/pageId=24
*   https://domain.tld/list?sort=price and https://domain.tld/list?sort=color

In each pair of links above, the two links shown are counted as two separate, unique links.