Include indexable pages in your sitemap
SkillSearchsitemap-coverage is a skill for AI agents that checks whether all important pages of a website are being found by Google. It suits content sites, e-commerce stores, and any site where timely indexing of new pages matters. It also helps investigate why new pages take a long time to appear in search results.
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Details
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Have an AI agent that can load skills.
What your AI can do with it
- Check whether all important pages of a website are being found by Google
- Investigate why new pages take a long time to appear in search results
- Apply to content sites, e-commerce stores, and sites where timely indexing matters
Getting started
- Have an AI agent that can load skills.
- Add the sitemap-coverage skill to the agent's available skills.
- Ask the agent to check whether a site's important pages are being found by Google, or to investigate slow indexing of new pages.
What this skill tells your AI
The instructions your AI receives, as published by thedaviddias/front-end-checklist in skills/sitemap-coverage/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.
Pages absent from the sitemap rely entirely on crawl discovery via links, which can delay indexing of new content, especially on large sites or pages with few inbound links.
Quick Reference
- Every canonical-url, indexable page should appear in the sitemap
- Pages with
noindexor non-self canonical tags must NOT be included in the sitemap - Paginated pages, filtered variants, and faceted URLs are usually excluded unless they have unique content
- Use Google Search Console Coverage report to find indexable pages not in the sitemap
Check
Compare the list of all canonical-url, indexable URLs on the site against the URLs in the XML sitemap. Flag any page that returns HTTP 200, has no noindex directive, has a self-referencing canonical, but is absent from the sitemap.
Fix
Add missing indexable pages to the sitemap. Remove pages that carry noindex, redirect, or non-self canonical tags from the sitemap. Automate sitemap generation so newly published content is included immediately.
Explain
Explain how missing sitemap coverage slows crawl discovery, which types of pages should and should not be included, and how to use Google Search Console to identify gaps.
Code Review
Review metadata generation, rendered HTML, structured data, and response headers related to Include indexable pages in your sitemap. Flag exact routes or templates where search-facing output violates the rule, and describe how to verify the final page output.
For full implementation details, code examples, and framework-specific guidance,
see references/rule.md.
Rule page: https://frontendchecklist.io/en/rules/seo/sitemap-coverage
Signals
- GitHub stars
- 74k
- Forks
- 7k
- Last commit
- Oct 2026
Questions
- When should this skill be used?
- Use it for content sites, e-commerce stores, and any site where timely indexing of new pages matters, or when investigating why new pages take a long time to appear in search results.
- What does the skill do?
- It helps your agent check whether all important pages of a website are being found by Google.
Advanced
- Item type
- skill
- Key
sitemap-coverage- Source
- github.com/thedaviddias/front-end-checklist
github.com/thedaviddias/front-end-checklist