Orphan Page Finder
Find sitemap pages nothing links to
What Is the Orphan Page Finder?
An orphan page is one your site lists but never links to. Search engines may still find it through the sitemap, but it gets no internal link value, and visitors can only reach it by typing the address. The Orphan Page Finder crawls your site by following its links, reads its sitemaps, and compares the two lists in both directions.
Key Features
Confirmed or Possible
A crawl can only prove a page is unlinked if it read every page that could link to it. When the crawl reaches every page linked from the start, unlinked sitemap URLs are true orphans. When it stops at your page limit first, they're possible orphans, and some will be linked from pages the crawl didn't reach. The report says which you're looking at, and a 250-page crawl narrows the list.
Rescue, Redirect or Remove
Decide for each orphan whether it deserves traffic. A good article nothing links to needs links from related posts or a category page. An old campaign page is often better redirected. A URL that no longer loads should come out of the sitemap, and the status column shows which ones those are.
Common Use Cases
- Finding pages a redesign left out of the navigation
- Cleaning stale URLs out of a sitemap
- Making sure every page in the sitemap gets internal links
- Spotting crawled pages missing from the sitemap
Frequently Asked Questions
Is the Orphan Page Finder free?
Yes. It's free with a ProxyHorizon account, and every account gets 25 runs a day shared across all our data tools. You can read about the tool without signing in, but running it needs an account because each run fetches live data.
What if my site has no sitemap?
Then there's no list to compare the crawl against, so orphans can't be found. The report shows pages linked from only one other page instead. It's worth adding a sitemap either way.
Why isn't the homepage listed?
The crawl starts there, so whether anything links back to it says nothing useful. It is left out.
How many pages does it crawl?
25, 50, 100 or 250, your choice. It starts at the URL you enter and follows internal links outward, so the pages closest to the start are read first. On a site bigger than your limit, the report says how many pages it read and how many the site has at least, and describes those pages rather than the whole site. A run has about two and a half minutes to crawl; on a slow site it stops where it got to and says so.
Do you keep the crawl?
For 24 hours. The crawl behind a report is stored for a day so the other sitewide tools can reuse it for the same site and page limit, instantly and without crawling again. It only holds public pages, so anyone checking the same site that day gets the same crawl. Choose "Crawl again now" whenever you want fresh data. We also log which tool you ran and when, to apply the daily limit.
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