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Our homepage has strong external backlinks. Does that authority show up in the LinkJuice analysis, or does it only look at internal links?

LinkJuice only analyses your internal link graph — it has no access to external backlink data. That means all pages start equal regardless of external authority. The scores show you how equity flows internally, not absolute Google authority. For a combined view you'd need to import an Ahrefs/Moz URL rating export and correlate manually.

Totally agree with the above. I'd also look at the outgoing links from your strongest pages. If your homepage links to 200+ things it loses focus. Cutting that list to 30-40 links concentrating on commercial pages made a noticeable difference for us.

Just adding a data point: we did this analysis for an 80,000-page e-commerce site and the run time was under 2 minutes in Chrome. No issues at all. The orphan detection alone saved us probably 15 hours of manual audit work.