Viewing website structure

[Simon.P]

In Tin's excellent course he describes the website structure needed is like a hub and spoke from a bicycle wheel. Does anyone know of any app/website that will put a website in a view like that so its easy to see the all the directories and pages within them without having to manually trawl through it?
Thanks

 

[webgeek]

You mean like
http://www.visualsitemapper.com
https://dynomapper.com

Prolly one you'll like:
http://www.powermapper.com/products/mapper/

 

[Simon.P]

Thats great, thanks Webgeek!

 

[StevePoster]

Aside from the tools, manually exploring the website structures would be useful for the analysis in improving users engagement.

 

[justinaldridge]

Website structure is absolutely fundametal! A good structure can really help search rankings and improve user experience and sales/leads, etc.

The Content Drilldown section in Google Analytics is a good way to look at what's popular and understand the different sections of the website and how they are performing. Screaming Frog is also a great crawler to download details of all of the pages on your site.

But I agree with Steve, nothing beats manually going through your website as a visitor and search engine would. Is the structure easy to navigate and logical? Is the structure reflected in the URL folder structure? Etc.

We spend a lot of time working on site structure. Getting this right is so important and often so overlooked.