Assess how internal links are distributed across a site and find orphaned depth.
Pages with no internal inbound links are rarely crawled or ranked regardless of their content. Click depth beyond about five reduces crawl frequency sharply. Internal linking is entirely within your control, which makes it the cheapest authority redistribution available.
Internal Link Distribution
Average links per page = total internal links ÷ pages; orphan share = orphans ÷ pages
Average links per page = total internal links ÷ pages; orphan share = orphans ÷ pages Pages with no internal inbound links are rarely crawled or ranked regardless of their content. Click depth beyond about five reduces crawl frequency sharply.
Internal linking is entirely within your control, which makes it the cheapest authority redistribution available.
This calculator takes 4 inputs: Total pages, Total internal links, Pages with no internal inbound links, Maximum click depth from the homepage. The pre-filled defaults are a realistic starting point — replace them with figures from your own environment for a result you can act on.