diff --git a/packages/core/src/puppeteer/tasks/html.ts b/packages/core/src/puppeteer/tasks/html.ts
index 2f4c1e58..32e20a59 100644
--- a/packages/core/src/puppeteer/tasks/html.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/puppeteer/tasks/html.ts
@@ -8,7 +8,8 @@ import { withoutTrailingSlash } from 'ufo'
 import { useLogger } from '../../logger'
 import { normaliseRoute } from '../../router'
 import { useUnlighthouse } from '../../unlighthouse'
-import { fetchUrlRaw, ReportArtifacts, trimSlashes } from '../../util'
+import { fetchUrlRaw, ReportArtifacts } from '../../util'
+import { isImplicitOrExplicitHtml } from '../../util/filter'
 import { setupPage } from '../util'
 
 export const extractHtmlPayload: (page: Page, route: string) => Promise<{ success: boolean, redirected?: false | string, message?: string, payload?: string }> = async (page, route) => {
@@ -150,21 +151,9 @@ export const inspectHtmlTask: PuppeteerTask = async (props) => {
   $('a').each(function () {
     const href = $(this).attr('href')
     // href must be provided and not be javascript
-    if (!href || href.includes('javascript:') || href.includes('mailto:') || href === '#')
+    if (!href || href.includes('javascript:') || href.includes('mailto:') || href === '#' || !isImplicitOrExplicitHtml(href))
       return
 
-    // if the URL doesn't end with a slash we may be dealing with a file
-    if (!href.endsWith('/')) {
-      // need to check for a dot, meaning a file
-      const parts = href.split('.')
-      // 1 part means there is no extension, or no dot in the url
-      if (parts.length > 1) {
-        // presumably the last part will be the extension
-        const extension = trimSlashes(parts[parts.length - 1]).replace('.', '')
-        if (extension !== 'html')
-          return
-      }
-    }
     if ((href.startsWith('/') && !href.startsWith('//')) || href.includes(resolvedConfig.site))
       internalLinks.push(href)
     else
diff --git a/packages/core/src/puppeteer/worker.ts b/packages/core/src/puppeteer/worker.ts
index cf204714..748f6e83 100644
--- a/packages/core/src/puppeteer/worker.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/puppeteer/worker.ts
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ import { matchPathToRule } from '../discovery'
 import { useLogger } from '../logger'
 import { useUnlighthouse } from '../unlighthouse'
 import { createTaskReportFromRoute, formatBytes, ReportArtifacts } from '../util'
-import { createFilter } from '../util/filter'
+import { createFilter, isImplicitOrExplicitHtml } from '../util/filter'
 import {
   launchPuppeteerCluster,
 } from './cluster'
@@ -116,9 +116,7 @@ export async function createUnlighthouseWorker(tasks: Record<UnlighthouseTask, T
       }
     }
 
-    const lastPathSegment = path.split('/').pop() || path
-    const extension = (lastPathSegment.includes('.') ? lastPathSegment.split('.').pop() : 'html') || 'html'
-    if (!extension.includes('html')) {
+    if (isImplicitOrExplicitHtml(path)) {
       logger.debug('Skipping non-HTML file from scanning', { path })
       return
     }
diff --git a/packages/core/src/util/filter.ts b/packages/core/src/util/filter.ts
index 705b7a82..4b037f71 100644
--- a/packages/core/src/util/filter.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/util/filter.ts
@@ -38,3 +38,25 @@ export function createFilter(options: CreateFilterOptions = {}): (path: string)
     return include.length === 0
   }
 }
+
+// types of file extensions that would return a HTML mime type
+const HTML_EXPLICIT_EXTENSIONS = [
+  // html
+  '.html',
+  '.htm',
+  // php
+  '.php',
+  // asp
+  '.asp',
+  '.aspx',
+]
+const FILE_MATCH_REGEX = /\.([0-9a-z])+$/i
+
+export function isImplicitOrExplicitHtml(path: string): boolean {
+  const lastPathSegment = path.split('/').pop() || path
+  // if it ends with a slash, then we assume it's a index HTML
+  if (lastPathSegment.endsWith('/'))
+    return true // implicit
+  const extension = lastPathSegment?.match(FILE_MATCH_REGEX)?.[0]
+  return !extension || HTML_EXPLICIT_EXTENSIONS.includes(extension)
+}
diff --git a/packages/core/test/filters.test.ts b/packages/core/test/filters.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e503be2e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/core/test/filters.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest'
+import { isImplicitOrExplicitHtml } from '../src/util/filter'
+
+describe('filters', () => {
+  it ('misc file paths', () => {
+    expect(isImplicitOrExplicitHtml('')).toBe(true)
+    expect(isImplicitOrExplicitHtml('/')).toBe(true)
+    expect(isImplicitOrExplicitHtml('/some.foo/test')).toBe(true)
+    expect(isImplicitOrExplicitHtml('/some/file.pdf/')).toBe(true)
+    expect(isImplicitOrExplicitHtml('/dist/assets/chunk[213.4.931294]')).toBe(true)
+
+    // file paths
+    expect(isImplicitOrExplicitHtml('/foo/bar.fr9f9')).toBe(false)
+    expect(isImplicitOrExplicitHtml('/some/file.pdf')).toBe(false)
+    expect(isImplicitOrExplicitHtml('/dist/assets/chunk[213.4.931294].css')).toBe(false)
+  })
+})