diff --git a/apps/api/src/lib/crawl-redis.ts b/apps/api/src/lib/crawl-redis.ts
index ddc542f9..9f6a8cf4 100644
--- a/apps/api/src/lib/crawl-redis.ts
+++ b/apps/api/src/lib/crawl-redis.ts
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import { ScrapeOptions } from "../controllers/v1/types";
 import { WebCrawler } from "../scraper/WebScraper/crawler";
 import { redisConnection } from "../services/queue-service";
 import { logger } from "./logger";
+import { getAdjustedMaxDepth } from "../scraper/WebScraper/utils/maxDepthUtils";
 
 export type StoredCrawl = {
     originUrl?: string;
@@ -172,7 +173,7 @@ export function crawlToCrawler(id: string, sc: StoredCrawl): WebCrawler {
         includes: sc.crawlerOptions?.includes ?? [],
         excludes: sc.crawlerOptions?.excludes ?? [],
         maxCrawledLinks: sc.crawlerOptions?.maxCrawledLinks ?? 1000,
-        maxCrawledDepth: sc.crawlerOptions?.maxDepth ?? 10,
+        maxCrawledDepth: getAdjustedMaxDepth(sc.originUrl!, sc.crawlerOptions?.maxDepth ?? 10),
         limit: sc.crawlerOptions?.limit ?? 10000,
         generateImgAltText: sc.crawlerOptions?.generateImgAltText ?? false,
         allowBackwardCrawling: sc.crawlerOptions?.allowBackwardCrawling ?? false,
diff --git a/apps/api/src/scraper/WebScraper/utils/maxDepthUtils.ts b/apps/api/src/scraper/WebScraper/utils/maxDepthUtils.ts
index c1fea7fc..bcacc210 100644
--- a/apps/api/src/scraper/WebScraper/utils/maxDepthUtils.ts
+++ b/apps/api/src/scraper/WebScraper/utils/maxDepthUtils.ts
@@ -7,6 +7,6 @@ export function getAdjustedMaxDepth(url: string, maxCrawlDepth: number): number
 }
 
 export function getURLDepth(url: string): number {
-  const pathSplits = new URL(url).pathname.split('/');
-  return pathSplits.length - (pathSplits[0].length === 0 && pathSplits[pathSplits.length - 1].length === 0 ? 1 : 0) - 1;
+  const pathSplits = new URL(url).pathname.split('/').filter(x => x !== "" && x !== "index.php" && x !== "index.html");
+  return pathSplits.length;
 }