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Robots & Sitemap Inspector

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Robots & Sitemap Inspector

Robots & Sitemap Inspector

Fetches /robots.txt + sitemap.xml for any site, parses directives, validates structure, returns a structured SEO-health report with A-F grade. Catches missing sitemaps, disallow-all blunders, oversized robots files, and stale lastmod dates.

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Coleton Patton

Coleton Patton

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Audit any site's robots.txt + sitemap.xml in seconds. Letter grade (A+ to F), structured health report, and actionable issues.

What it does

  • Fetches /robots.txt, parses every directive (User-agent groups, Allow/Disallow, Sitemap, Crawl-delay)
  • Walks linked sitemaps (or falls back to /sitemap.xml), up to 5 sub-sitemaps from a sitemap index
  • Counts URLs, tracks oldest + newest lastmod, flags health issues
  • Detects the catastrophic "disallow: /" that silently kills SEO

Input

{ "url": "https://example.com" }

Batch mode:

{ "urls": ["https://a.com", "https://b.com"] }

Output

{
"url": "https://example.com",
"grade": "B",
"score": 75,
"robots": {
"found": true,
"size": 1240,
"userAgents": ["*", "Googlebot"],
"sitemaps": ["https://example.com/sitemap.xml"],
"crawlDelay": null,
"disallowAll": false
},
"sitemaps": [
{ "url": "https://example.com/sitemap.xml", "found": true, "urlCount": 124, "type": "urlset", "lastmodCount": 124 }
],
"summary": {
"totalUrls": 124,
"sitemapCount": 1,
"oldestLastmod": "2024-03-15",
"newestLastmod": "2026-06-17"
},
"issues": []
}

Use cases

  • SEO migration QA — verify sitemaps survived a CMS move
  • Crawl-budget triage — find sites whose robots.txt accidentally blocks Googlebot
  • Lead enrichment for SEO agencies — find prospects with broken sitemaps
  • Pre-launch checks — confirm staging robots.txt isn't pushed to prod

Pricing

Pay-per-result: $0.005/URL audited. Fetch-only, so this Actor is cheap to run — perfect for nightly audits across hundreds of sites.

Author

Built by Peak Post — 22+ Chrome extensions, 6+ Apify Actors. Part of an "SEO portfolio" that pairs with Meta Tag Inspector, Schema Validator, and Security Headers Scanner.