Sitemaps
Sitemaps shows the XML sitemaps the crawler discovered for your site, whether each was found and parsed, and how the URLs they list reconcile against what the crawler actually found on your site. Search engines lean heavily on your sitemap for discovery, so a sitemap that is missing, unparseable, or out of sync with reality quietly holds pages back. This view confirms your sitemap is both discoverable and accurate.
What you’ll need
Section titled “What you’ll need”- A project with a completed audit. The crawler looks for sitemaps at your domain root and in
robots.txtduring each run.
What you’ll see
Section titled “What you’ll see”Each discovered sitemap with its status, plus the two reconciliation signals that compare the sitemap against the crawl.
| Item | What it tells you |
|---|---|
| Status | Whether each sitemap was found, fetched, and parsed without error. |
| URL count | How many URLs the sitemap declares. |
| Sitemap-only pages | URLs listed in the sitemap that the crawler reached but found no internal link to — present in the sitemap, orphaned in your structure. |
| Missing from sitemap | Pages the crawler found by following internal links that the sitemap does not list. |
How to read it
Section titled “How to read it”A healthy sitemap is found, parses cleanly, and its URL set lines up with your crawled pages. The two mismatches each point at a different problem. Sitemap-only pages are reachable in theory but orphaned in your site structure, so you are relying on the sitemap alone to carry them — add internal links so they are properly supported. Missing from sitemap means real, linked pages aren’t being declared for discovery, so add them to the sitemap. A sitemap that fails to parse, or that the crawler could not find at all, is the most urgent case, because search engines hit the same wall.
How to use it
Section titled “How to use it”Confirm the sitemap was found and parsed first; fix that before anything else. Then work the two reconciliation lists: link the sitemap-only pages into your structure, and add the missing-from-sitemap pages to the file. Submitting the sitemap in Google Search Console gives Google a direct pointer to it and lets you confirm Google can read it too. Re-run the audit after changes to verify the two lists shrink.
Next steps
Section titled “Next steps”- Google Search Console connector → — submit your sitemap and confirm Google can read it
- Crawler cross-check → — verify discovery against an independent second crawl
- Internal Linking → — link the sitemap-only pages into your structure