Sitemap analysis
Flowpane examines existing XML sitemaps without crawling your site. It checks presence, structure, URL inventory, data quality, and spec compliance.
Discovery sources
- Standard
/sitemap.xml /sitemap_index.xmlSitemap:directives in robots.txt- Platform-specific paths (e.g.
/wp-sitemap.xml)
Reading the analysis
Identify the sitemap URL, observation time, response status and whether the document is a URL set or an index. Review errors on the affected document rather than treating one successful child as proof that every sitemap succeeded. Separate duplicate declarations, malformed data and unavailable documents.
For a URL finding, confirm the intended public URL and inspect its response and canonical policy before editing. A clean XML result does not prove that every declared page exists or is indexed. See Pages evidence.