Why does this matter?
An XML sitemap helps search engines discover all pages on your website, including pages that are otherwise hard to find via internal links. It speeds up indexing of new and updated content.
How to fix it?
Generate a sitemap.xml and upload it to /sitemap.xml. Submit it via Google Search Console. Update it automatically when new content is added. Mention it in your robots.txt.
This check scores from 0 to 100. Below 50 is a fail, 50 to 89 is a warning, 90 or above is good. After each crawl you see the score per page in your report, with a short note on what we found.
Frequently asked questions
Checks if a valid XML sitemap is present.
An XML sitemap helps search engines discover all pages on your website, including pages that are otherwise hard to find via internal links. It speeds up indexing of new and updated content.
Generate a sitemap.xml and upload it to /sitemap.xml. Submit it via Google Search Console. Update it automatically when new content is added. Mention it in your robots.txt.
Example
Copy the code below and adapt the domain name, brand name and content to your situation.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
<url>
<loc>https://www.yourdomain.com/</loc>
<lastmod>2026-03-14</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>1.0</priority>
</url>
<url>
<loc>https://www.yourdomain.com/seo-audit-tool/</loc>
<lastmod>2026-03-01</lastmod>
<changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
<priority>0.8</priority>
</url>
</urlset>