# Topics

> The site's pages grouped by what they say. One row per topic: how many pages it has, the words that mark it, how tight and how well linked it is, and the page that acts as its hub. Another crawled site can be compared topic by topic.

Describes GLLmolfar 0.9.22, checked 2026-11-01. Canonical page: https://www.getlooploop.com/gllmolfar/docs/topics

- **Where:** Meaning › Topics
- **Mode:** Simple and Pro
- **Built from:** The open crawl's embeddings, made on this computer
- **Changes:** Live during the crawl; final when it ends

## On the screen

At the top, one line with the counts. Under it, the comparison with another site. Then a strip of every topic's share of pages, and the table of topics.

![The Topics tab of GLLmolfar after a crawl of getlooploop.com](https://www.getlooploop.com/images/gllmolfar/docs/topics.webp)

Numbered parts of the screenshot:

1. **Counts.** How many topics and pages, how many pages fit no topic, and whether this is the live or the final view.
2. **Compare with.** Pick another crawled site to compare its topics with these. Shown once the final view is ready.
3. **Share of pages.** One band per topic, as wide as its share of pages. A band opens the topic's pages in the table.
4. **Topics, Pages, Key terms.** The topic's name, its number of pages with a bar, and the words that mark it.
5. **Cohesion, Linked inside, Cannibal pairs.** How tight the topic is, how well its close pages link to each other, and how many of its pages compete.
6. **Central page.** The most linked page of the topic. It opens that page's details.
7. **Show pages, On the map.** **Show pages** opens the table of pages filtered to this topic. **On the map** opens the topic map with this topic in focus.

> **Dotted words.** A term such as **embeddings** in the comparison line has a dotted underline: hovering it gives one sentence on what it means and a link to the GetLoopLoop glossary. **Settings › General** switches the explanations off.

## The table

| Column | What it shows |
| --- | --- |
| Topics | The topic's name, made from its key terms, with its colour. The same colour marks the topic on the map and in every other tab. |
| Pages | How many pages belong to the topic, with a bar against the largest topic. |
| Key terms: | The words that set the topic apart, taken from its pages' titles and H1s. |
| Cohesion | How close the topic's pages are to its centre in meaning, from 0 to 1. Higher is a tighter topic. |
| Linked inside | Of the topic's pairs of pages that are close in meaning (similarity 0.80 or more), the share where one page links to the other. Red below 10%. **after crawl** until links are known. |
| Cannibal pairs | Pairs of pages in this topic that say almost the same thing. Amber at 100 and above. See [Cannibalization](https://www.getlooploop.com/gllmolfar/docs/cannibalization). |
| Central page: | The page of the topic with the most internal links pointing to it: the topic's hub. |
| Show pages / On the map | Open the topic's pages in the table of [all pages](https://www.getlooploop.com/gllmolfar/docs/all-pages), or on the [topic map](https://www.getlooploop.com/gllmolfar/docs/topic-map). |

> **Live and final.** During a crawl the topics are drawn from the pages embedded so far: **Live view; it settles when the crawl ends.** When the crawl ends they are worked out once more over every page: **Final view.** Topics, link coverage and pairs can change between the two.

The toolbar's **Export** saves the table: topic, key terms, pages, cohesion, linked inside, cannibal pairs and central page.

## Compare with another site

The **Compare with** list holds the other sites crawled with embeddings. Both crawls must be embedded by the same model. Nothing is worked out until a site is picked.

| Part | What it shows |
| --- | --- |
| The two sites in numbers | Health score, URLs crawled, indexable pages, errors, not indexable, problems to fix, topics and cannibal pairs, side by side. The better figure is green, the worse red. From each site's latest crawl with embeddings. |
| Topics both sites cover · N | Topics matched by meaning, with their similarity and a bar of **Pages, yours : theirs**. **Closest pages** lists the page pairs nearest to each other, with their similarity. |
| Only on {site} · N | Topics one site has and the other does not, with their pages and key terms. For the other site: subjects they cover and you do not, candidates for new pages. |

## States and messages

- **No embeddings** — the app says: "Topics appear once pages are embedded. Turn on Embeddings if they are off." No page has been embedded yet. The **Embeddings** box in the toolbar turns the model on.
- **Too few pages** — the app says: "Not enough embedded pages for topics yet." Some pages are embedded, but not enough to group.
- **Waiting for the model** — the app says: "topics wait for the model: {n} first fragments left" Printed in the status bar while the model catches up with the crawl.
- **Nothing to compare** — the app says: "No other crawled site with embeddings yet. Crawl one with embeddings on, then pick it here." The comparison needs a second site crawled with embeddings.
- **Comparing** — the app says: "Comparing topics…" The comparison runs once per pick and is kept until the topics change.
- **Locked** — the app says: "A tab with a lock is not open on this account; pressing it says what opens it." The tab keeps its place in the Meaning panel with a lock.

## Related pages

- [Topic map](https://www.getlooploop.com/gllmolfar/docs/topic-map.md): The Topic map tab: every embedded page as a dot, placed by meaning and coloured by topic, status, indexability or depth, with a card for each page.
- [Cannibalization](https://www.getlooploop.com/gllmolfar/docs/cannibalization.md): The Cannibalization tab: groups of pages that say almost the same thing, the page to keep, the pages side by side and their text passage by passage.
- [Link opportunities](https://www.getlooploop.com/gllmolfar/docs/link-opportunities.md): The Link opportunities tab: weakly linked pages, the pages closest to them in meaning that do not link to them yet, and an anchor for each link.
- [Settings › Embeddings](https://www.getlooploop.com/gllmolfar/docs/settings-embeddings.md): Settings › Embeddings: whether new crawls build embeddings, how much of each page the model reads, and whether it runs on the CPU or the GPU.
- [Overview](https://www.getlooploop.com/gllmolfar/docs/overview.md): The Overview tab after a crawl: the health score, six counters, what to fix first, response codes, indexability, site depth, topics and earlier crawls.