diff --git a/apps/api/src/__tests__/e2e_withAuth/index.test.ts b/apps/api/src/__tests__/e2e_withAuth/index.test.ts
index 0ae5ad9..ef4f3e1 100644
--- a/apps/api/src/__tests__/e2e_withAuth/index.test.ts
+++ b/apps/api/src/__tests__/e2e_withAuth/index.test.ts
@@ -390,7 +390,8 @@ describe("E2E Tests for API Routes", () => {
 
       // Check if all URLs have a maximum depth of 1
       urls.forEach((url: string) => {
-        const depth = new URL(url).pathname.split("/").filter(Boolean).length;
+        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(2);
       });
     }, 120000);
@@ -432,7 +433,8 @@ describe("E2E Tests for API Routes", () => {
 
       // 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 depth = new URL(url).pathname.split("/").filter(Boolean).length;
+        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(3);
       });
     }, 120000);
@@ -749,7 +751,8 @@ describe("E2E Tests for API Routes", () => {
 
       // Check if all URLs have a maximum depth of 1
       urls.forEach((url) => {
-        const depth = new URL(url).pathname.split("/").filter(Boolean).length;
+        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(2);
       });
     }, 180000);
diff --git a/apps/api/src/scraper/WebScraper/crawler.ts b/apps/api/src/scraper/WebScraper/crawler.ts
index 7720991..33a643b 100644
--- a/apps/api/src/scraper/WebScraper/crawler.ts
+++ b/apps/api/src/scraper/WebScraper/crawler.ts
@@ -158,7 +158,6 @@ export class WebCrawler {
 
     // make sure to run include exclude here again
     const filteredUrls = this.filterLinks(urls.map(urlObj => urlObj.url), limit, this.maxCrawledDepth);
-
     return filteredUrls.map(url => ({ url, html: urls.find(urlObj => urlObj.url === url)?.html || "" }));
   }