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Missing from sitemap

sitemaps.urls_not_in_sitemap
Priority
Low
Severity
Info

What we look for

These crawled pages are not in any sitemap (the file that lists your pages for search engines) Raptor read. Only pages search engines may list, and that name no other page as preferred, are counted.

Why it matters

Search engines can still find these pages through links, but a complete sitemap helps them find new and changed pages sooner.

How to fix

Add these pages to the sitemap, usually by letting your CMS or SEO plugin include every type of page you publish.

What it cannot know

Raptor compares addresses as written, so a page the sitemap lists under an address that redirects to it counts as missing.

Seen in a real crawl

From a crawl of Fernhollow Outdoor, a test site built for this site’s demo.

Low

3 pages are not listed in the sitemap

  • /journal/
  • /journal/storm-shell-review/
  • /journal/pitching-in-the-rain/
Paths on http://127.0.0.1:8006raptor 0.3.0, 17 Oct 2026

Open this finding in that crawl’s report

It also fired on Millbrook Hardware.

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.urls_not_in_sitemap
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.urls_not_in_sitemap"
The HTML report
This link opens the finding in the report, and each finding shows its id.
crawl.html#finding=sitemaps.urls_not_in_sitemap
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.urls_not_in_sitemap"
}