Mapping sites PowerMapper Desktop Manual

To map a site:

• Navigate to your site using the address bar
• Click Build Map in the side bar - PowerMapper crawls your site and draws a map
• Choose Map Style from the side bar to change the appearance of the map
• Save the map using the Save Map side bar button

It’s best to start off with a small site before scanning large sites.

PowerMapper scans sites by following links on each page it scans to find new pages to scan. It’s like clicking on every link on a page to find new pages, then clicking on all the links on the found pages.

Choose which pages are scanned

The scope of the scan is controlled by the radio buttons in the side bar:

• Entire site scans all pages on the starting domain. When scanning from https://www.example.com all pages on https://www.example.com are scanned, but not pages on https://store.example.com or other domains like google.com.
• Current folder scans pages in the current virtual directory, reachable by links from pages within that virtual directory. When scanning from https://www.example.com/company pages with the url prefix https://www.example.com/company are scanned, but not https://www.example.com/ or pages in https://www.example.com/help, and links to https://www.example.com/company from pages outside it are ignored.

If you need to scan additional domains as part of the same scan see including other domains in the scan.

Sites with a password

Navigate to the login page, enter the username and password to login, then click Build Map in the side bar. If the logged in site has a Logout link you may need to block it to prevent a log out during scanning. See scanning sites with a password.