diff --git a/apps/api/src/__tests__/e2e_withAuth/index.test.ts b/apps/api/src/__tests__/e2e_withAuth/index.test.ts
index 7c234ef..9a574f3 100644
--- a/apps/api/src/__tests__/e2e_withAuth/index.test.ts
+++ b/apps/api/src/__tests__/e2e_withAuth/index.test.ts
@@ -619,13 +619,14 @@ describe("E2E Tests for API Routes", () => {
     }, 180000);
 
     it.concurrent("should return a successful response with relative max depth option for a valid crawl job with maxDepths equals to zero", async () => {
+      
       const crawlResponse = await request(TEST_URL)
         .post("/v0/crawl")
         .set("Authorization", `Bearer ${process.env.TEST_API_KEY}`)
         .set("Content-Type", "application/json")
         .send({
-          url: "https://www.scrapethissite.com",
-          crawlerOptions: { maxDepth: 0 },
+          url: "https://www.mendable.ai",
+          crawlerOptions: { maxDepth: 2 },
         });
       expect(crawlResponse.statusCode).toBe(200);
 
@@ -651,6 +652,70 @@ describe("E2E Tests for API Routes", () => {
         .get(`/v0/crawl/status/${crawlResponse.body.jobId}`)
         .set("Authorization", `Bearer ${process.env.TEST_API_KEY}`);
 
+        const testurls = completedResponse.body.data.map(
+          (item: any) => item.metadata?.sourceURL
+        );
+        console.log(testurls)
+
+      expect(completedResponse.statusCode).toBe(200);
+      expect(completedResponse.body).toHaveProperty("status");
+      expect(completedResponse.body.status).toBe("completed");
+      expect(completedResponse.body).toHaveProperty("data");
+      expect(completedResponse.body.data[0]).toHaveProperty("content");
+      expect(completedResponse.body.data[0]).toHaveProperty("markdown");
+      expect(completedResponse.body.data[0]).toHaveProperty("metadata");
+      const urls = completedResponse.body.data.map(
+        (item: any) => item.metadata?.sourceURL
+      );
+      expect(urls.length).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(1);
+
+      // Check if all URLs have an absolute maximum depth of 3 after the base URL depth was 2 and the maxDepth was 1
+      urls.forEach((url: string) => {
+        const pathSplits = new URL(url).pathname.split('/');
+        const depth = pathSplits.length - (pathSplits[0].length === 0 && pathSplits[pathSplits.length - 1].length === 0 ? 1 : 0);
+        expect(depth).toBeLessThanOrEqual(1);
+      });
+    }, 180000);
+
+    it.concurrent("should return a successful response with relative max depth option for a valid crawl job with maxDepths equals to zero", async () => {
+      
+      const crawlResponse = await request(TEST_URL)
+        .post("/v0/crawl")
+        .set("Authorization", `Bearer ${process.env.TEST_API_KEY}`)
+        .set("Content-Type", "application/json")
+        .send({
+          url: "https://www.scrapethissite.com",
+          crawlerOptions: { maxDepth: 2 },
+        });
+      expect(crawlResponse.statusCode).toBe(200);
+
+      const response = await request(TEST_URL)
+        .get(`/v0/crawl/status/${crawlResponse.body.jobId}`)
+        .set("Authorization", `Bearer ${process.env.TEST_API_KEY}`);
+      expect(response.statusCode).toBe(200);
+      expect(response.body).toHaveProperty("status");
+      expect(["active", "waiting"]).toContain(response.body.status);
+      // wait for 60 seconds
+      let isCompleted = false;
+      while (!isCompleted) {
+        const statusCheckResponse = await request(TEST_URL)
+          .get(`/v0/crawl/status/${crawlResponse.body.jobId}`)
+          .set("Authorization", `Bearer ${process.env.TEST_API_KEY}`);
+        expect(statusCheckResponse.statusCode).toBe(200);
+        isCompleted = statusCheckResponse.body.status === "completed";
+        if (!isCompleted) {
+          await new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, 1000)); // Wait for 1 second before checking again
+        }
+      }
+      const completedResponse = await request(TEST_URL)
+        .get(`/v0/crawl/status/${crawlResponse.body.jobId}`)
+        .set("Authorization", `Bearer ${process.env.TEST_API_KEY}`);
+
+        const testurls = completedResponse.body.data.map(
+          (item: any) => item.metadata?.sourceURL
+        );
+        console.log(testurls)
+
       expect(completedResponse.statusCode).toBe(200);
       expect(completedResponse.body).toHaveProperty("status");
       expect(completedResponse.body.status).toBe("completed");
diff --git a/apps/api/src/scraper/WebScraper/crawler.ts b/apps/api/src/scraper/WebScraper/crawler.ts
index ba5e003..3171ec7 100644
--- a/apps/api/src/scraper/WebScraper/crawler.ts
+++ b/apps/api/src/scraper/WebScraper/crawler.ts
@@ -60,8 +60,11 @@ export class WebCrawler {
       .filter((link) => {
         const url = new URL(link);
         const path = url.pathname;
-        const depth = url.pathname.split('/').length - 1;
+        
+        const pathSplits = new URL(url).pathname.split('/');
+        const depth = pathSplits.length - (pathSplits[0].length === 0 && pathSplits[pathSplits.length - 1].length === 0 ? 1 : 0) -1;
 
+        
         // Check if the link exceeds the maximum depth allowed
         if (depth > maxDepth) {
           return false;
@@ -136,8 +139,10 @@ export class WebCrawler {
 
     if(!crawlerOptions?.ignoreSitemap){
       const sitemapLinks = await this.tryFetchSitemapLinks(this.initialUrl);
+    
       if (sitemapLinks.length > 0) {
         let filteredLinks = this.filterLinks(sitemapLinks, limit, maxDepth);
+       
         return filteredLinks.map(link => ({ url: link, html: "" }));
       }
     }
@@ -148,6 +153,7 @@ export class WebCrawler {
       concurrencyLimit,
       inProgress
     );
+   
     
     if (
       urls.length === 0 &&
diff --git a/apps/api/src/scraper/WebScraper/index.ts b/apps/api/src/scraper/WebScraper/index.ts
index 030f795..c19711d 100644
--- a/apps/api/src/scraper/WebScraper/index.ts
+++ b/apps/api/src/scraper/WebScraper/index.ts
@@ -164,9 +164,9 @@ export class WebScraperDataProvider {
   ): Promise<Document[]> {
 
     const pathSplits = new URL(this.urls[0]).pathname.split('/');
-    const baseURLDepth = pathSplits.length - (pathSplits[0].length === 0 && pathSplits[pathSplits.length - 1].length === 0 ? 1 : 0);
+    const baseURLDepth = pathSplits.length - (pathSplits[0].length === 0 && pathSplits[pathSplits.length - 1].length === 0 ? 1 : 0) -1;
     const adjustedMaxDepth = this.maxCrawledDepth + baseURLDepth;
-    
+  
     const crawler = new WebCrawler({
       initialUrl: this.urls[0],
       includes: this.includes,