How to analyze competitor site structure

Extract all URLs for the competitor domain, then group them by folder and page type. This immediately reveals topic clusters, hierarchy depth, and navigation patterns.

Use Olostep Maps to discover URLs from sitemaps, robots.txt, and browser-rendered pages. It is fast, comprehensive, and works well for JavaScript-heavy sites.

Structure impacts crawlability, topical authority, internal linking, and discoverability. Comparing your architecture to competitors helps you identify missing clusters and weak coverage.

Yes. Export URL inventories for each domain, normalize path patterns, and compare coverage by topic, depth, and template type.

Yes. Real-browser crawling includes links rendered through JavaScript, so your competitor map is much more complete than sitemap-only extraction.

JSON and CSV are best for clustering and dashboards, while TXT is useful for quick manual inspection.

Absolutely. Once you have competitor URL clusters, you can identify missing categories, weak subtopics, and opportunities for new landing pages.

Yes. It helps benchmark how much indexable surface area competitors have for retrieval and answer engines.

Yes. Competitor architecture can serve as a benchmark to validate your new structure and avoid coverage loss during migration.

Every request includes JS rendering and residential IPs with predictable pricing, so teams avoid separate crawler and proxy overhead.

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The API returns the id of the request (for future retrievals), the Markdown and the HTML of the page. You can also retrieve JSON with specific parsers or structured data with LLM extraction. If you are using the /answers endpoint as the search basis for your AI it will return an answer, a json in the schema you have defined and the sources Olostep has searched.

Yes, Olostep lets you extract data using natural language prompts. If you know the exact URL containing your data, use the /scrapes endpoint with llm_extract and describe what you want to extract. At scale, for deterministic needs, we recommend using Olostep's parsers. For more complex tasks like searching for data, navigating between pages, handling pagination, or validating results, use the /agents endpoint that automatically finds and extracts data based on your prompt.

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