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sitemap.missing

A site should publish a sitemap

warningsite-wideguideline

Why it matters

Without one, discovery depends entirely on what links to what — the part of a site nobody audits. A warning rather than an error: a small, fully linked site genuinely may not need a sitemap, and saying otherwise would be inventing a rule.

What the finding looks like

The message goflag prints, with example values substituted.

warn sitemap.missing No sitemap was found — not declared in robots.txt, and not at a well-known path. Discovery then depends entirely on what links to what, which is the part of a site nobody audits.

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 guideline, and it cites the documents 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.