A sitemap SEO audit that actually checks indexability (not just URLs)

Extracting URLs is the easy part

A sitemap gives you a list. What you actually need to know is whether those pages can rank: do they return 200, do they self-canonical, are they accidentally noindexed, do they have a title of a sane length, is the hreflang cluster reciprocal?

The SEO Audit Tool does the full pass, bounded:

1. Fetches robots.txt and follows every declared Sitemap:.
2. Walks nested sitemap index files up to your cap.
3. Fetches each URL (robots-aware by default) and reports.

What each audited URL carries

{
  "recordType": "page",
  "url": "https://example.com/pricing",
  "httpStatus": 200,
  "finalUrl": "https://example.com/pricing",
  "redirectCount": 0,
  "contentType": "text/html",
  "title": "Pricing — Example",
  "metaDescription": "...",
  "h1Count": 1,
  "canonicalUrl": "https://example.com/pricing",
  "isNoindex": false,
  "isIndexable": true,
  "hreflang": [{ "lang": "en", "url": "..." }],
  "imagesMissingAlt": 3,
  "internalLinks": 42,
  "findings": [
    { "id": "title-too-short", "severity": "low", "message": "Title is 14 characters.", "evidence": "Pricing — Example" }
  ]
}

Findings are severity-ranked, so the dataset sorts into a to-do list.

Two modes

• extract-urls — cheap, returns the URL inventory with lastmod/changefreq/priority. Use it to size a site before paying for a full audit.
• audit — fetches and analyses every URL.

{
  "sites": ["example.com"],
  "mode": "audit",
  "maxUrlsPerSite": 500,
  "maxSitemapsPerSite": 30
}

The honest limit

If a site has no sitemap, there is nothing to audit. The Actor tells you so (EMPTY_RESULT) instead of silently crawling the whole domain, because that would blow your budget without warning.

Try it

SEO Audit Tool: Sitemap & Indexability — point it at a domain or a direct sitemap URL.

Comments

[SerpSpur]

Most sitemap audits only check whether URLs exist. The real issue is whether those URLs are actually indexable. I’d check sitemap URLs against canonicals, noindex directives, redirects, and crawlability. SerpSpur can help turn those checks into actionable SEO insights—not just a URL count.