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Missing sitemap

sitemaps.no_sitemap_found
Priority
Medium
Severity
Warning

What we look for

Raptor found no sitemap (an XML file listing the pages you want search engines to find), either in robots.txt (the site's file of crawling rules) or at the usual addresses such as /sitemap.xml.

Why it matters

A small site that links every page well can do without one. On a larger or newer site, a sitemap helps search engines find pages that few links lead to.

How to fix

Have your CMS or an SEO plugin create /sitemap.xml, add a "Sitemap:" line with its full address to robots.txt, and submit it in Google Search Console.

Seen in a real crawl

From a crawl of Kestrel Bay Digital (the canonical-variants fixture), a test site from Raptor’s fixture suite.

Medium

The site has no XML sitemap

A site-wide finding: it describes the site, so it lists no pages.

Paths on http://127.0.0.1:8003raptor 0.3.0, 17 Oct 2026

Open this finding in that crawl’s report

It also fired on the js-heavy fixture.

Where you’ll see it

The id is stable, and every surface uses it, so it’s the thing to search for or hand to an agent.

Terminal
When it is one of the five findings under Fix first, raptor crawl prints the id under it.
Check: sitemaps.no_sitemap_found
crawl.json and the CSV
The crawl JSON names the finding by this id, and so do the CSV and raptor_query.
"check_id": "sitemaps.no_sitemap_found"
The HTML report
This link opens the finding in the report, and each finding shows its id.
crawl.html#finding=sitemaps.no_sitemap_found
MCP
raptor_findings with this check_id returns the finding in full, with a fix brief ready to paste into a task. If it didn’t fire, it says why.
raptor_findings {
  "job_id": "...",
  "check_id": "sitemaps.no_sitemap_found"
}