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sitemap.xml missing

What this means

No sitemap.xml at the site root. Search engines rely on link discovery alone. Pages with no inbound links may never be indexed, and new content takes longer to appear in results.

How to fix it

Create sitemap.xml in your root directory, listing every public page.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
  <url>
    <loc>https://example.com/</loc>
    <lastmod>2025-01-01</lastmod>
    <priority>1.0</priority>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://example.com/about/</loc>
    <lastmod>2025-01-01</lastmod>
    <priority>0.8</priority>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://example.com/contact/</loc>
    <lastmod>2025-01-01</lastmod>
    <priority>0.7</priority>
  </url>
</urlset>

Use absolute URLs. If your server normalises URLs to a trailing slash, include the trailing slash in each <loc>. Every <loc> must match the canonical form of the URL — the same URL you would use as a canonical tag.

Once the sitemap is in place, reference it from robots.txt.

Sitemap: https://example.com/sitemap.xml

Verify the fix

curl https://yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml

Confirm the response is valid XML with <urlset> as the root element and that all your pages are listed. Then re-run orino audit.