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What's the difference between the "Crawled Pages" and "Organic Pages" metrics?
Correct: "Crawled Pages" refer to pages visited by Ahrefs' crawler, while "Organic Pages" are those that appear in Google's top 100 organic search results.
In the context of Ahrefs, the distinction between "Crawled Pages" and "Organic Pages" is fundamental because they measure two entirely different data sets: the former represents the technical reach of the Ahrefs bot, while the latter represents actual search engine visibility. Specifically, "Crawled Pages" refers to pages visited by Ahrefs' crawler during its routine indexing of the web or a specific Site Audit, regardless of whether those pages rank for anything. In contrast, "Organic Pages" are those that appear in Google's top 100 organic search results for the keywords tracked in Ahrefs' database, meaning a site could have thousands of crawled pages but only a small fraction of "organic" pages if most of its content fails to rank prominently in search results.