Crawlability check
A valid sitemap is published and declared
The sitemap exists, parses as XML, is declared in robots.txt, and its sample urls answer with 200.
high severitycrawl.sitemap
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Why it matters
A sitemap is the clearest list of pages a site wants indexed. It speeds up discovery and makes coverage visible.
How to fix it
Generate a sitemap with the urls that should be indexed, publish it at /sitemap.xml and add a Sitemap line to robots.txt.
The details
- Category
- Crawlability
- Severity of a failure
- high
- Confidence
- high
- Needs a browser
- No
- Check id
- crawl.sitemap
References
Free tools that run this check
SEO CheckerFind the technical problems that keep a page out of search results. The checker reads the page the way a search crawler does and lists what to fix first, with the evidence behind every verdict.Robots.txt CheckerCheck that robots.txt is published, parses cleanly and does not block the pages you want found. See at a glance which search engines and AI crawlers the rules allow.Sitemap CheckerCheck that your sitemap exists, parses as valid XML, is declared in robots.txt and lists urls that actually work. A broken sitemap wastes the crawl budget you give it.