Sitemap audit

sitemap_audit

Loads all XML sitemaps, takes inventory and checks a sample of URLs for status, noindex, blocking and canonicals.

What it does

Loads all XML sitemaps of a domain (from robots.txt, sitemap indexes recursively, gzip supported), takes inventory (URL count, lastmod quality, duplicates, foreign hosts, http URLs, size limits) and checks a stratified sample of URLs for status 200, redirects, noindex, robots.txt blocking and self-canonical. Only URLs on the own site of the sitemap (same host or subdomains) are fetched; URLs on other hosts are counted, not fetched. Use when asked whether a sitemap is clean or why sitemap URLs are not indexed. Returns findings with counts extrapolated to the whole sitemap and examples. Takes 10 to 40 seconds.

~25 s · up to 400 requests · v1.0.0

Call it from code

REST endpoint (POST)

https://tech-seo.de/api/v1/checks/sitemap_audit

MCP tool name

sitemap_audit

cURL

curl -X POST https://tech-seo.de/api/v1/checks/sitemap_audit \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  -d '{"source":"example.com"}'

Parameters and result format →