Site structure audit before content production
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Site structure audit before content production
Before you create new content, map how your public URLs are organized today. A site structure audit shows the current home, hub, and leaf page pattern before you add more pages.
Radar can build a URL structure map from public sitemaps and shallow crawl signals, giving your team a clearer starting point for content planning.
In brief
- Use a pre-production structure audit to understand how existing pages are grouped before deciding where new pages should live.
- Radar’s demo output includes a URL structure map for home, hub, and leaf pages, plus a share link and public scans feed.
- Keep the audit practical: the free demo is capped at up to 1,000 pages per run and depends on publicly available crawl signals.
What to do
A site structure audit before content production starts with a simple inventory of what is already visible. With Radar, the free demo can scan up to 1,000 pages per run and group them into home, hub, and leaf levels using public sitemaps and shallow crawl signals.
The output gives your team a shareable URL structure map, so planning does not depend on memory or assumptions. It helps show which sections already exist and how the current architecture is arranged before you brief new content.
For larger or more complex work, the cap can increase to up to 20,000 pages per run. That option includes AI interpretation, two-site comparison on one screen, and JSON import when crawling is blocked and you can provide a snapshot.
What to keep in mind
This audit is most useful when a team needs to know whether the current site structure can support scalable topic, role, industry, or location coverage. It gives structure decisions a clearer base before production begins.
Common issues include sites that do not map cleanly to topics, industries, roles, or US locations, plus sections that became cluttered after programmatic SEO experiments. A hub and leaf view makes those patterns easier to discuss.
Radar has clear limits. The free demo does not include AI interpretation and does not bypass protected or blocked sites. Coverage depends on public sitemaps and shallow crawl signals, so blocked areas may need JSON import in the higher-capability option.