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sitemap missing (SvelteKit)

What this means

No static/sitemap.xml and no dynamic sitemap endpoint at src/routes/sitemap.xml/+server.ts. Without a sitemap, search engines rely on link discovery alone. Pages with no inbound links may never be indexed.

How to fix it

For sites where URLs are not known at build time, create a dynamic endpoint that generates the sitemap on request.

import type { RequestHandler } from './$types'

export const GET: RequestHandler = async () => {
  const pages = await getPages()

  const urls = pages
    .map(p => `  <url><loc>https://example.com${p.path}</loc></url>`)
    .join('\n')

  const body = `<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
${urls}
</urlset>`

  return new Response(body, {
    headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/xml' },
  })
}

For fully static sites, a static/sitemap.xml file is simpler and requires no code.

<?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>
</urlset>

Verify the fix

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

Confirm the response is valid XML with <urlset> as the root element. Then re-run orino audit.