Analyze your sitemap.xml in seconds and find out if GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and PerplexityBot can discover all your pages.
Traditional search engines have spent years building sophisticated link-following systems. AI crawlers like GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and PerplexityBot do not have that luxury. They rely heavily on your sitemap.xml to discover which pages exist on your site and when they were last updated. Without a valid sitemap, AI crawlers must follow links one by one from your homepage, and many give up before reaching your deeper pages. A well-structured sitemap is the fastest way to tell every crawler, both traditional and AI, exactly what content you have and what changed recently. If your sitemap is missing, broken, or not referenced in robots.txt, you are leaving pages invisible to the AI models that power ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity answers.
We check whether your site publishes a sitemap.xml at the standard root location and verify it returns a valid HTTP response.
We parse your robots.txt to confirm it includes a Sitemap: directive so that every crawler, including AI bots, knows where to find it.
We validate the XML structure, count the URLs listed, check lastmod coverage, and flag entries that point to external domains.
We detect whether your site uses a sitemap index file with multiple child sitemaps, which is the recommended structure for larger sites.
A sitemap is an XML file that lists every public URL on your site along with metadata like the last modification date. AI crawlers such as GPTBot and ClaudeBot use it to discover your content efficiently instead of following links page by page. Without one, AI models may never index your deeper pages.
The standard location is at the root of your domain: https://yoursite.com/sitemap.xml. Most AI and traditional crawlers check this path automatically. You can use a different path, but you must declare it in your robots.txt so bots can find it.
Yes. Adding a Sitemap: line to your robots.txt is the most reliable way to ensure every crawler discovers your sitemap. Many AI crawlers read robots.txt first and follow the Sitemap directive before doing anything else.
Update your sitemap whenever you publish, modify, or remove a page. Include accurate lastmod dates so crawlers know which pages changed. Stale sitemaps with outdated dates teach crawlers to ignore your freshness signals.
We fetch your sitemap.xml and robots.txt, validate the XML structure, count URLs, check lastmod coverage, flag off-domain entries, and verify that your robots.txt references the sitemap. The full check runs as part of a broader analysis that scores your site across six categories of AI visibility.
Validate your /llms.txt file that tells LLMs what content matters.
Detect JSON-LD schemas that AI models rely on to understand your site.
Verify your meta descriptions, Open Graph, and Twitter cards.
Check if GPTBot and ClaudeBot are allowed and your content is visible without JS.
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