Validate robots.txt, discover sitemap locations, and confirm index-ready coverage.
Discovers all sitemaps declared in robots.txt and probes common locations.
Scores overall sitemap coverage and identifies issues.
Samples URLs from sitemaps and checks lastmod dates.
Sitemaps help search engines discover and index your content efficiently. Poor sitemap hygiene can delay indexing.
Update sitemaps whenever you add, remove, or significantly modify pages. Use lastmod dates to signal freshness.
A sitemap index is a sitemap that references other sitemaps, useful for sites with more than 50,000 URLs.