Why can page limits prevent PDFs from testing?
Accounts have separate capacity for web pages and PDF documents, allocated per website as allowances.
Silktide classifies a URL as a PDF when it can recognize it as one (often via a .pdf extension or clear PDF response). If a document is served from a URL without .pdf - or only reaches a PDF after a redirect or rewrite - the crawler may treat that URL as an ordinary page.
Once the website's is exhausted, discovery stops for more page-classified URLs. That can leave real PDFs untested even if PDF allowance remains.
Fixes that usually work:
- Raise the page allowance for the site, or
- Serve document URLs with a clear
.pdfpath where you control the CMS