Site Lens and Page Explorer pull their page totals from different data scopes within the same Site Audit crawl. Site Lens counts only pages it can place in the link-depth visualization; Page Explorer counts every crawled URL, so the two numbers will not always match.
📊 What Site Lens Counts
Site Lens builds a link-depth chart showing how many pages sit at each click-depth from your homepage. To populate that chart, it draws only from pages that have a confirmed link-depth value — pages reachable via at least one measured internal link path from the homepage.
Pages the crawler visited but could not assign a depth position to are excluded from the Site Lens total. As a result, the Total pages figure in Site Lens reflects the visualization scope, not the full crawl.
🔍 What Page Explorer Counts
Page Explorer reports against the complete crawl dataset. Every URL the crawler visited — regardless of whether it has a calculable link-depth value — is counted and listed here. Page Explorer is the authoritative source for your site's total crawled page count and the right tool for auditing full crawl coverage.
⚠️ Why Orphaned Page Counts Also Differ
Orphaned pages are URLs the crawler found (typically through a sitemap or external backlink) that have no internal links pointing to them. Because they have no inbound internal link path, they also have no calculable link depth, so Site Lens cannot place them in its depth chart.
Site Lens counts only the orphaned pages it can position in the depth structure. Page Explorer counts all orphaned pages across the full crawl. The two orphaned-page totals will differ whenever your site has orphaned pages — which is the common case.
💡 When to Use Site Lens vs. Page Explorer
- Analyzing link depth and site architecture — use Site Lens. Its counts correctly reflect how pages are distributed across depth levels and how well your internal linking reaches every section of the site.
- Auditing total crawled pages or finding all orphaned pages — use Page Explorer. It covers the full crawl and is the reliable source for SEO coverage checks and orphan-remediation workflows.
🎯 Site Lens is built for depth-structure analysis; Page Explorer covers your complete crawl. Use Page Explorer as your source of truth for total and orphaned page counts, then switch to Site Lens to understand and improve how those pages are reached through internal linking.