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Purpose

The Site Map page lets you browse and search every page discovered across your site during a crawl. Rather than only showing pages that were audited, this view provides a complete inventory laid out as a folder tree by URL. From here, you can inspect the scores and open issues for any specific page, organize your pages into sections so their metrics roll up together, set up exclusion rules to prevent Athena from suggesting changes for certain paths, and directly launch Athena to draft fixes for a page.

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What’s on the page

Back link In the top left, a < Pages button returns you to the standard “Pages” tab (the audit sample view) where you originally opened the site map. Page header Shows the “Site map” title and description. In the top right, it provides actions to Manage sections and configure Exclusions. Controls row
  • Filter by section: A dropdown that lets you narrow the view to “All sections” or a specific section you’ve created.
  • Search pages: A search box to find specific paths or keywords in a URL.
  • Count line: Sits on the far right, displaying how many pages are currently in view compared to the total number of matches (e.g., “Showing 50 of 120 matches”).
Tree / results card This is the main display area for your site’s pages:
  • Folder tree: When browsing normally, pages are grouped by their host and folder path. You can click the arrow next to a folder to expand it. Folders show the total count of pages they contain.
  • Search results: If you enter text in the “Search pages” box, the view changes to a flat, fully-expanded list of matching pages so you don’t have to hunt through folders.
  • Page rows: Each individual page row displays its audit status, AI citation rate, Win rate vs top pages, and the number of open issues.
Page details drawer Clicking on any page row opens the Page details drawer on the right side of the screen. It displays:
  • The page’s full URL (which acts as a clickable link to view the live page in a new tab).
  • Section: The section the page belongs to (or “None yet”) and how it was assigned (e.g., “Path rule”, “Auto-assigned”, or “Moved by a teammate”).
  • Scores: A recap of the page’s audit status, scores, and open issues.
  • Move to section: A dropdown allowing you to manually reassign the page to a different section.
  • Fix with Athena: A button to immediately start drafting content changes for the page’s open issues.
Manage sections dialog Opened from the top right, this dialog allows you to:
  • Rename a section (this form only appears if you have a specific section currently selected in the “Filter by section” dropdown).
  • Save prefix rule: A form with “Path prefix” and “Section name” inputs to automatically group current and future pages under a specific path into a section.
Optimization exclusions dialog Opened from the top right, this shows:
  • A form to enter a Path prefix (and choose a Crawl scope if your site has more than one) to prevent Athena from drafting changes for those pages.
  • A list of existing exclusion rules, each with a Remove button.

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What you can do here

  • Browse your site’s structure: Click the arrows next to folders in the tree to expand and collapse paths.
  • Search for a page: Type a path or keyword in the “Search pages” box. The view will switch to a flat list of matching URLs.
  • Filter by section: Click the “Filter by section” dropdown to only view pages that belong to a specific area of your site.
  • Load more search results: If a search returns many pages, scroll to the bottom of the list and click Show X more matches.
  • Move a page to a section: Click a page row to open the “Page details” drawer, then select a new section from the “Move to section” dropdown.
  • Create an automatic section rule: Click Manage sections, type a path prefix (like /blog), enter a Section name, and click Save prefix rule.
  • Rename a section: First, select the section you want to rename from the “Filter by section” dropdown. Then click Manage sections, update the name in the “Rename” form, and click Save name.
  • Draft fixes for a page: Click a page row to open its details, then click Fix with Athena. This opens the chat pre-loaded with the page’s open issues so Athena can help rewrite the content.
  • Exclude pages from optimization: Click Exclusions, type a path prefix (like /legal), and click Exclude. To delete a rule, click Remove next to it in the list.

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Data shown

The page displays the complete inventory of URLs discovered during the crawls of your active website. The scores (AI citation rate, Win rate) and open issue counts shown on the page rows come from the latest completed SEO audit. The sections and exclusion rules are configurations created by you and your teammates.

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Common workflows

Fixing issues on a specific page
  1. Type a partial URL into the “Search pages” box.
  2. Click the matching page in the results list to open the “Page details” drawer.
  3. Click the Fix with Athena button.
  4. Athena will open and begin drafting content updates to resolve the open issues on that page.
Grouping pages into a section
  1. Click Manage sections in the top right.
  2. In the “Path prefix” field, enter the root path for the area of the site (e.g., /support).
  3. In the “Section name” field, give the section a readable name (e.g., “Help Center”).
  4. Click Save prefix rule. All current and future crawled pages starting with /support will be grouped into the “Help Center” section.
Excluding pages from optimization
  1. Click Exclusions in the top right.
  2. Enter a path prefix (e.g., /archive) in the “Path prefix” field.
  3. Click Exclude.

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Empty, loading, and error states

  • Empty states: If no crawl has been completed yet, you will see “No pages found yet” with links to Run a crawl from Crawl scope or View the audit sample. If you search for a URL that doesn’t exist, you will see “No pages match these filters” and a Clear filters button.
  • Loading states: While the tree, a specific folder, or search results are loading, skeleton blocks will appear. The drawer will show “Loading page details…” while fetching a selected page’s data.
  • Error states: If the folder tree fails to load, a red “These pages could not be loaded” callout appears with a Try again button. A similar “Try again” button appears at the bottom of search results if loading the next batch fails. If a specific page’s data fails to load in the drawer, a “Page details could not be loaded” error is displayed.
  • Linked from: The main Site Health “Pages” tab (the audit sample view), via a link to view the full site map.
  • Links to: The “Pages” tab (via the < Pages back button), the “Crawl scope” settings page (from the empty state), and the Ask Athena chat panel (when drafting a fix).

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Common support questions

Why are some folders named “(this page)” or “(homepage)”? In a website, a URL can act as both a standalone page and a folder containing other pages. For example, /events is a page itself, but it might also have pages underneath it like /events/2026/. To display this in a folder tree, the /events folder contains a row labeled “(this page)” representing the main /events URL. Why do some pages say “Not checked yet”? The Site Map shows every page discovered during the crawl. However, a site audit only checks a sampled subset of those pages to generate scores and issues. If a page was discovered but wasn’t included in the most recent audit sample, it won’t have scores yet. I don’t see the option to rename a section. To rename a section, you must first select that specific section from the “Filter by section” dropdown on the main page. Once filtered, clicking “Manage sections” will reveal the rename form. It does not appear if you have “All sections” selected. I manually moved a page to a section, but a prefix rule moved it back? Actually, it’s the other way around: manual moves override prefix rules. A prefix rule automatically organizes pages that match the path, but if a teammate manually assigns a page to a different section, it will stay in the manually assigned section regardless of the rule. Why can’t I see the “Manage sections” or “Exclusions” buttons? Managing sections and exclusions requires “Analytics” write permissions for the website. If you have view-only access, you can browse the site map and view page details, but you cannot make structural changes.