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sitemap.index.child-error

Every child of a sitemap index must be reachable and parseable

errorsite-widespec-required

Why it matters

An index declares an inventory, and part of it is unreachable. Whatever those documents listed is invisible — and because they are the thing that would have said what, nothing reports how much was lost.

What the finding looks like

The message goflag prints, with example values substituted.

error sitemap.index.child-error 2 of 9 child sitemaps could not be read. The index declares an inventory and part of it is missing, so whatever those documents listed is invisible — and nothing says how much that is.

How to fix it

The catalogue carries no snippet for a site rule: a cross-page rule builds its remedy from what the crawl found, so goflag attaches the fix to the finding itself rather than to the rule. Run it and read the finding.

Says who?

This rule is spec-required, and it cites the document below. Nothing here is goflag’s opinion of what a good page looks like — if you disagree with a finding, this is what you are disagreeing with.