Sitemap Health Audit
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$250.00 / 1,000 completed audits
Sitemap Health Audit
Can a site's sitemap be trusted? Discovery via robots.txt and common paths, XML validity, index nesting, lastmod coverage and freshness, over-limit warnings, and a dead-URL sample check. Extraction tools list URLs; this grades the sitemap. Charged only when the audit completes.
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$250.00 / 1,000 completed audits
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Extraction tools list a sitemap's URLs. This one tells you whether the sitemap can be trusted. One call: discovery (robots.txt declaration or common paths), XML validity, index nesting, lastmod coverage and freshness, over-limit warnings, and a spot-check of the URLs themselves for dead pages.
What you get
{"site": "https://example.com","sitemaps_found": 6,"sitemaps_invalid": 0,"urls_collected": 120,"lastmod_coverage_pct": 93.3,"newest_lastmod_age_days": 0.4,"sampled": 15,"dead_in_sample": 0,"fixes": ["Sitemap posture is healthy."]}
Plus one row per sitemap file (kind, HTTP status, URL count, over-50k warning) and one row per dead sampled URL.
Why it matters
A sitemap that declares dead pages, carries no lastmod, or has not changed in months actively hurts crawling: it teaches search engines the file is noise. Agencies check this by hand at the start of every engagement; agents can now check it in one call.
Input
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
url | string | Site root (sitemap auto-discovered) or a direct sitemap .xml URL |
sampleSize | integer | Dead-URL spot-check size, spread across the file. Default 15 |
Honesty notes
- "No sitemap found" is a completed audit (that is the finding), and is charged; an unreachable site is not.
- Gzipped sitemaps and sitemap indexes are handled; collection caps at 2,000 URLs and 5 child sitemaps per index for politeness.
- The dead-URL check is a sample, not a full crawl; the summary says exactly how many were checked.
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