# Onboarding Step 2: Connect Website (/docs/projects/onboarding-website)



Reached if you picked **Website URL** in
[step 1](/docs/projects/onboarding-source).

## Flow [#flow]

1. Enter a domain — `example.com` works; `https://` is added for you.
2. Click **Continue**.

The screen has a single URL field; there are no crawl-depth or
competitor inputs.

## What happens server-side [#what-happens-server-side]

When you click Continue, the wizard routes to
[Confirm details](/docs/projects/onboarding-confirm), which kicks off
the website analysis pipeline. The backend:

* Does a quick reachability HEAD request (fails fast if the site is
  unreachable or geo-blocked from our crawler).
* Runs a server-side site scrape + branding extraction.
* Detects any linked iOS / Android apps from the site.
* Runs App Store analysis on any detected app.

## Privacy [#privacy]

Layers fetches the site server-side. JavaScript execution is limited
to what the crawler needs.