Sitemap Valid

Validates sitemap structure and URL limits

Rule ID	crawl/sitemap-valid
Category	Crawlability
Scope	Site-wide
Severity	error
Weight	8/10

Solution

Sitemaps must follow the sitemap protocol: use UTF-8 encoding, proper XML structure, and valid URLs. Each sitemap file can contain max 50,000 URLs and be max 50MB uncompressed. For larger sites, use a sitemap index file. All URLs should return 200 status codes. Use lastmod dates to indicate content freshness. Compress with gzip for faster loading.

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Disable this rule

[rules]
disable = ["crawl/sitemap-valid"]

Disable all Crawlability rules

[rules]
disable = ["crawl/*"]

Enable only this rule

[rules]
enable = ["crawl/sitemap-valid"]
disable = ["*"]