Sitemap SEO Auditor

Turn any website sitemap into a clean technical SEO audit dataset.

This Actor extracts URLs from a sitemap and checks each page for status code, title tag, meta description, H1, canonical URL, robots meta, word count, response time, and common SEO issue labels. Export the results as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, RSS, or HTML from Apify datasets.

Why use this Actor?

Use Sitemap SEO Auditor when you need a fast page-level SEO inventory without running a heavy crawler.

Good for:

• quick technical SEO audits;
• content inventories from a sitemap;
• finding missing titles, meta descriptions, H1s, or canonicals;
• detecting accidental noindex pages;
• checking non-200 pages listed in a sitemap;
• preparing CSV/JSON data for agency reports, dashboards, or automation.

Input

{
  "startUrl": "https://example.com/sitemap.xml",
  "maxPages": 100,
  "requestDelayMs": 250,
  "includeIssues": true
}

Input fields

Field	Type	Description
startUrl	string	Website homepage or direct sitemap URL. If a homepage is provided, the Actor checks common sitemap locations like /sitemap.xml.
maxPages	integer	Maximum number of sitemap URLs to audit.
requestDelayMs	integer	Polite delay between page requests.
includeIssues	boolean	Add issue labels such as missing_title, missing_meta_description, multiple_h1, missing_canonical, noindex, or non_200_status.

Output

Each audited page is saved as one dataset item.

{
  "url": "https://example.com/pricing",
  "finalUrl": "https://example.com/pricing",
  "statusCode": 200,
  "title": "Pricing | Example",
  "titleLength": 17,
  "metaDescription": "Simple pricing for growing teams.",
  "metaDescriptionLength": 33,
  "h1": "Pricing",
  "h1Count": 1,
  "canonical": "https://example.com/pricing",
  "robotsMeta": "index,follow",
  "wordCount": 842,
  "contentType": "text/html; charset=utf-8",
  "responseTimeMs": 287,
  "issues": []
}

Output fields

• url - URL found in the sitemap.
• finalUrl - final URL after redirects.
• statusCode - HTTP status code.
• title / titleLength - page title and character length.
• metaDescription / metaDescriptionLength - meta description and character length.
• h1 / h1Count - first H1 and total H1 count.
• canonical - canonical URL if present.
• robotsMeta - robots meta tag content.
• wordCount - approximate visible body word count.
• contentType - response content type.
• responseTimeMs - request duration.
• issues - optional SEO issue labels.

How it works

1. Accepts a homepage URL or direct sitemap URL.
2. Discovers common sitemap paths for homepage inputs.
3. Expands sitemap indexes into child sitemap files.
4. Audits up to maxPages URLs.
5. Pushes clean page-level records to the default dataset.
6. Writes a SUMMARY object to the default key-value store.

Limitations

• This Actor currently supports regular XML sitemaps and sitemap indexes.
• JavaScript-rendered metadata is not evaluated; it reads the server-returned HTML.
• Sites may block automated requests or rate-limit large audits.
• Use a polite requestDelayMs for production audits.

Local run

npm install
CRAWLEE_STORAGE_DIR=./storage node src/main.js

Edit storage/key_value_stores/default/INPUT.json to change input.

Deploy

npm install -g apify-cli
apify login
apify push

SEO keywords

sitemap scraper, SEO audit API, title tag checker, meta description checker, canonical checker, noindex checker, bulk SEO audit, website content inventory, technical SEO tool.