Does A Sitemap Guarantee Indexing?

No. It helps discovery and supplies hints. Search engines still choose what to crawl and index based on accessibility, duplication, canonical signals, quality and resources.

Does The Path Tester Implement Every Crawler Quirk?

No. It provides a practical longest-matching-rule interpretation for local review. Individual crawlers can document product-specific behavior.

Does It Fetch My Website?

No. This version audits pasted or uploaded files, avoiding cross-origin failures and hidden server-side crawling.

Sitemap & Robots Crawlability Auditor

Audit robots.txt groups and sitemap XML locally, test paths, inventory URLs, find structural problems and export crawlability reports.

Crawlability audit

No structural findings

Sitemap URLs0

Hosts0

Robot groups1

Rules3

Path tester

PathUser agent

Blocked for * at /private/report. Matching result: disallow: /private/.

Declared sitemaps
https://example.com/sitemap.xml

This local audit checks syntax, URL inventory and a practical longest-prefix robots path decision. Search crawlers may apply product-specific limits, redirects, canonicals, HTTP status, JavaScript rendering and quality signals that cannot be inferred from these two files alone.

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What Is the Sitemap & Robots Crawlability Auditor?

A paired robots.txt and sitemap.xml inspection workspace. It parses user-agent groups, Allow and Disallow paths, declared sitemap locations, URL or sitemap-index entries, duplicates, invalid URLs, host mixing and last-modified values without crawling the pages.

How It Works

Open or paste both files, test a representative URL path and user agent, inspect structural findings and switch to the complete URL inventory. Export a JSON audit or CSV inventory.

When to Use It

Review a deployment, migration or indexing incident before submitting files to search consoles. Crawlability also depends on HTTP status, redirects, canonicalization, rendering, internal links and search-engine quality decisions that these files cannot prove.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does A Sitemap Guarantee Indexing?: No. It helps discovery and supplies hints. Search engines still choose what to crawl and index based on accessibility, duplication, canonical signals, quality and resources.
Does The Path Tester Implement Every Crawler Quirk?: No. It provides a practical longest-matching-rule interpretation for local review. Individual crawlers can document product-specific behavior.
Does It Fetch My Website?: No. This version audits pasted or uploaded files, avoiding cross-origin failures and hidden server-side crawling.

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