Warning Technical SEO
No XML sitemap found
- Severity
- Warning
- Impact
- Medium
- Effort to fix
- Low
- Issue code
no_sitemap
Why it matters
No sitemap was found in robots.txt or at /sitemap.xml. Sitemaps help search engines discover and prioritise URLs.
How to fix it
Generate an XML sitemap, reference it in robots.txt and submit it in Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools.
How it affects your score
Finding this issue on any page costs the Technical SEO score 3 points, plus up to 12 more depending on the share of crawled pages affected. Weakens rankings, crawling or measurement. Fix after critical issues.
Find the affected URLs
Open Crawl > Issues and pick No XML sitemap found. Each affected URL is listed with its evidence, and Copy URLs or Export URLs hands the list to a developer. The issue also appears in the Action Plan, ranked by impact (medium) and effort (low), and in the issues CSV under the code no_sitemap. After fixing, run a new audit and use Compare to confirm the URLs moved to fixed.