Sitemapper

Critical

Sitemap URL returns an HTTP error

The live page returned 4xx or 5xx.

Why it matters

Advertising a broken URL in a sitemap asks crawlers to fetch a failure.

Example

Product URL in the sitemap now 404s after a catalog prune.

How Sitemapper detects it

Deep-checked URLs record the terminal HTTP status.

Verify it yourself

curl -I the URL. Check CDN/WAF blocks that look like 403/429.

Practical fix

Remove dead URLs from the sitemap, or restore the page. Prefer 301 to a replacement over a soft 404.

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