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A sitemap.xml is reachable and referenced from robots.txt.

sitemap.presentdiscoverabilityweight 2deterministicauto-fix available
Why it matters

sitemap.xml is the canonical inventory of every URL on your site. Search engines and AI crawlers both use it to discover pages they would otherwise miss. A site without a sitemap forces agents to crawl recursively from the homepage and miss anything not linked from a top-level page.

Underlying specification: https://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.html

How to fix
  1. Generate a sitemap.xml that lists every public URL on your site.
  2. Most frameworks (Next.js, Hugo, Jekyll, Astro) generate one automatically; CMSes have plugins (Yoast, Rank Math).
  3. Reference the sitemap from robots.txt with a `Sitemap:` directive at the top of the file.
  4. Submit it to Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools after deploy.
Generated snippet

The snippet below uses your-domain.example as a placeholder. Replace it with your actual host before deploying. For a fix tailored to your live site, run a scan and open the per-domain remediation page.

Generated fixnew file→ https://your-domain.example/sitemap.xml

AgentSpeed couldn't find a sitemap.xml. Even a one-URL sitemap referencing the homepage is a strong signal: agents and search engines use it to find canonical content faster than walking links.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
  <url>
    <loc>https://your-domain.example/</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-07-20</lastmod>
    <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
    <priority>1.0</priority>
  </url>
  <!-- Add one <url> entry per important canonical page below.
       Generators in most static-site frameworks (Next.js, Hugo, Astro) emit
       this automatically; check your framework's docs before maintaining
       this file by hand. -->
</urlset>
save as https://your-domain.example/sitemap.xml
  • ›Save as `/sitemap.xml` at the apex.
  • ›Reference it from your robots.txt with: `Sitemap: https://your-domain.example/sitemap.xml`
  • ›Most static-site generators emit a sitemap automatically, so prefer that over hand-maintaining this file.
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