Search optimisation
Sitemap declared
At least one sitemap is declared in robots.txt
What we check
At least one sitemap is declared in robots.txt
Why it matters
Declaring a sitemap helps crawlers find pages that are poorly linked.
How to fix it
Add a Sitemap: line to robots.txt.
How it affects your score
This check sits in Search optimisation, which is worth 25% of the overall score. A critical result costs the full weight of the check; a warning costs half. If we can't measure it on your page, we leave it out of the score entirely.