Hub and leaf SEO architecture

Databricks.com benchmark screenshot showing hubs, leaf pages, and scores for a large SaaS site — Databricks Radar benchmark summarizing hubs, leaf pages, and crawl scores for a large SaaS site.

What this page covers

Hub and leaf SEO architecture is how large sites group core hub pages with many related leaf pages. It shapes how users and search engines move through hundreds or thousands of URLs.

Benchmarks like Databricks show what this looks like at scale: 10,093 pages organized into 186 hubs and 9,906 leaf pages, with a top Radar score of 100/A in its cluster.

On this hub you can explore specific hub and leaf SEO patterns, from city and service structures to directories and large enterprise setups, and decide which model fits your site best.

What to choose

See how large SaaS and platform sites use hubs and thousands of leaf pages to reach a 100/A Radar score with more than 10,000 indexed URLs.
Compare with SEO agency and performance marketing sites that run leaner architectures, such as 9 hubs and just over 500 leaf pages, and a 77/B Radar score.
Jump into detailed patterns for city and service pages, directories, content hubs, and large-site SEO to choose the hub and leaf model that matches your growth plans.

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Where to go next

Below is a set of focused guides on hub and leaf SEO architecture, from city and service layouts to directory-style hubs and content structures.

Use these pages to see how different hub and leaf patterns can scale from a few hundred pages to many thousands, and pick the approach that best matches your site type and size.

Pages in this topic

City and service page seo architecture Directory seo hub and leaf architecture Hub and leaf content architecture Hub leaf page structure for seo Seo hub and spoke architecture Seo page architecture for large websites

What matters

Databricks is benchmarked in the US SaaS and platform SEO cluster with 10,093 pages, 186 hubs, and 9,906 leaf pages, achieving a Radar score of 100/A.
Palantir appears in the same SaaS and platform SEO cluster with 5,658 pages and 67 hubs, also reaching a Radar score of 100/A for its architecture.
Croud, a US SEO and performance marketing agency, is benchmarked with 513 pages, 9 hubs, and 503 leaf pages, earning a 77/B Radar score in its SEO agency and company cluster.

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