B
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34%
34% -- orphan page percentage for average website (2023)
According to a 2023 Screaming Frog study of 10,000 websites, the average website has 34% orphan pages.
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34%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2023
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Sample Size
10,000
Evidence Quality
B
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50
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
60
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Screaming Frog
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Tier C
https://seology.ai/blog/orphan-page-recovery-strategy ↗
Source Article
Orphan Page Recovery: Find & Fix Pages With No Internal
Orphan Page Recovery: Find & Fix Pages With No Internal Links (14 Recovery Tactics)
Orphan pages waste 34% of your site\'s ranking potential--hidden from Google with zero internal links. Orphan page recovery identified 284 hidden pages and recovered 67% more organic traffic.
TL;DR
- Orphan pages hav…
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Screaming Frog
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Screaming Frog crawl analysis of 10,000 websites, as cited by seology.ai
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average website: 34% orphan page percentage. Source: Screaming Frog (2023). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/orphan-pages-percentage-avg-website
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/orphan-pages-percentage-avg-website" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>34%</strong> -- orphan page percentage for average website<br><small>Source: Screaming Frog (2023) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/orphan-pages-percentage-avg-website" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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