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title: "Orphan Pages: 87% of Small Sites Have Sitemap URLs Nothing Links To - PageSpeed Matters"
url: https://www.pagespeedmatters.com/resources/data-studies/orphan-page-statistics
description: "On 77 small sites we could crawl completely, 87.0% had at least one sitemap URL that no internal link reaches, and 8.5% of their 16,587 sitemap URLs were orphaned."
lang: en
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Orphan Pages: 87% of Small Sites Have Sitemap URLs Nothing Links To (https://www.pagespeedmatters.com/resources/data-studies/orphan-page-statistics)

On 77 small sites we could crawl completely, 87.0% had at least one sitemap URL that no internal link reaches, and 8.5% of their 16,587 sitemap URLs were orphaned.

Share of listed sitemap URLs that no internal link reaches, by URL type

Tag, category and author archives 18.3%

Blog and news posts 12.9%

Other pages 8%

Product and collection pages 1.5%

Source: PageSpeed Matters. Crawl and sitemap check of 77 small sites, Oct 2026.

Small sites only; links that appear only after JavaScript interaction can make a page look orphaned.

Source: Orphan Pages: 87% of Small Sites Have Sitemap URLs Nothing Links To - PageSpeed Matters (https://www.pagespeedmatters.com/resources/data-studies/orphan-page-statistics)