Orphan Page Detector

Orphan pages are the silent failure mode of most CMS-generated sites. A blog publishes 2 posts a week for 3 years, the CMS adds each one to the sitemap automatically, and the older posts stop getting linked from the homepage, the category pages, and the related-posts widget. After 18 months, 30-40% of the library can be orphans, and the site's overall internal link graph quietly rots. Rankings drop, crawl budget gets wasted, and the team blames the algorithm.The threshold that matters is 3 internal links minimum per important page. Pages with 0 inbound internal links are orphans. Pages with 1-2 are underlinked and at risk. Pages with 3+ are connected into the site's link graph and pass PageRank normally. Most enterprise sites find that 20-30% of their URLs are orphans or underlinked on the first crawl, and the fix is usually a contextual link from a related post or category page.The detector compares your XML sitemap against a live internal-link crawl of up to 100 pages, then reports which sitemap URLs have zero inbound links. You see a list of orphans, a list of underlinked pages with 1-2 links, and a link health grade for the domain. For each orphan, you get a recommended source page to add a contextual link from. The fix is usually a 5-minute edit, and the impact is often a 2-3 position ranking lift within 30 days.