site.sitemap-broken-url

What to change

A finding of this rule on a page carries the exact edits for that page: the markup it quotes, and what to write instead.

When it runs

Runs on a crawl or a build directory. An error is a problem that keeps a page out of search or out of answers, or breaks how it shows there. Each finding takes 15 points off the page's score.

The severity here is the rule's usual one: a finding can be raised or lowered when the page gives a reason.

Run it, or skip it

Check a page for this rule alone, after a fix for instance:

npx @rivi-software/agentic-seo-check crawl https://example.com --rule site.sitemap-broken-url

Or from an assistant, with the MCP tool seo_crawl_site:

{
  "url": "https://example.com",
  "rules": [
    "site.sitemap-broken-url"
  ]
}

To leave it out of an audit, pass --disable site.sitemap-broken-url on the command, or disableRules: ["site.sitemap-broken-url"] to a tool.

• Infosite.sitemap-lastmod-uniformEvery URL of a sitemap of 10 or more has the same <lastmod> date and time, which is the time the sitemap was built rather than when each page changed. Bing asks sites not to set lastmod to the sitemap's build time, and Google ignores lastmod values that are not accurate.
• Infosite.sitemap-other-hostThe site's sitemaps list URLs on other hosts. Google accepts them only for hosts verified in Search Console or whose own robots.txt names the sitemap.
• Errorsite.sitemap-noindex-pageThe sitemap lists pages that are set to noindex.
• Warningsite.sitemap-non-canonicalThe sitemap lists URLs whose canonical points to a different URL.
• Warningsite.sitemap-redirecting-urlThe sitemap lists URLs that redirect.
• Infosite.not-in-sitemapIndexable pages discovered by crawling are not listed in the sitemap.
• Infosite.orphan-pagesSitemap URLs that no crawled page links to.
• Errorsite.broken-internal-linksInternal links point to URLs that return 4xx/5xx or fail to load.