Checking links across an entire site
Most of the time, checking the page you're looking at is enough. When it isn't, "Scan entire site" extends the same checking engine across multiple pages of one site — with real limits, stated plainly.
How it works
From a scan's results, click Scan entire site. Chrome shows a real permission prompt naming that one site specifically — you can decline it. If you accept, Link Alpha opens a single hidden background tab (never visible, never switched to) and navigates it through same-origin pages it discovers as links, reading each page's links the same way it reads the page you're already looking at. The hidden tab is always closed when the scan finishes, is cancelled, or fails.
Scope and limits
- Up to 25 pages per crawl, same-origin only. Link Alpha never follows a crawl onto a different domain than the one you granted permission for.
- Capped at 10 site-scans a day — a flat limit shared by free and paid users alike, since this is a heavier operation (real page navigations, not just checking links already on one page), not a tier feature.
- No
robots.txtorsitemap.xmldiscovery. Pages are found by following links Link Alpha encounters during the crawl, not by reading a site's crawl directives or sitemap. - A page that's slow or broken is skipped so the rest of the crawl can continue — it doesn't hang or abort the whole scan.
- Each ordinary page scan still allows up to 5,000 links — a shared technical safety cap, not something full-site scanning changes.
Reviewing results that span multiple pages
Results found on more than one crawled page show their full occurrence count, same as duplicate links within a single-page scan. Locate works normally for a result found on the page you started from; for a result found only on a different crawled page, Link Alpha tells you to open that original page rather than highlighting the wrong one.
What this isn't
This is not an unlimited, scheduled, or background website crawler. It's a bounded, opt-in extension of the same page-level engine, meant for an occasional full-site spot-check — not continuous monitoring or an SEO crawler replacement.