Sitemap vs crawl — cross-referenced.

Sitemap Audit

XML sitemaps tell search engines which pages you want indexed. But sitemaps often drift from reality — containing deleted pages, redirects, or non-canonical URLs while missing important new pages. EchoBat cross-references your sitemap entries against actual crawl results to identify discrepancies. This reveals pages in your sitemap that return errors, indexable pages missing from the sitemap, and canonical mismatches between sitemap URLs and actual canonical tags.

How It Works

EchoBat fetches and parses XML sitemaps during the Discovery phase. During the crawl, it records the actual status code and canonical tag for every URL. The Sitemap Health lens then cross-references: sitemap entries are checked against crawl results, and crawled indexable pages are checked against sitemap entries. Discrepancies are grouped by type and ranked by severity.

Why It Matters

Find drift between your sitemap and actual site state
Remove dead URLs that waste crawl budget in the sitemap
Discover indexable pages missing from the sitemap
Catch canonical mismatches that confuse search engines

About EchoBat

EchoBat is a multi-engine site-intelligence platform built for technical SEOs, performance engineers, agencies, and AI coding agents. Seven analysis engines (Discovery, Pulse, Crawl, Fingerprint, Render, ArchMap, Analyze) run on every scan and feed 25+ coverage lenses that score every page on SEO, performance, accessibility, security, structured data, and content quality. The CLI emits machine-readable JSON and the MCP server lets AI agents like Claude Code, Cursor, and Windsurf drive scans end-to-end. The desktop tray app keeps the engine warm in the background; the cloud portal at echobatseo.com stores history, scheduling, team seats, and shareable client reports.

Get started by downloading EchoBat for Windows, macOS, or Linux, or choose a paid plan if you need cloud sync, scheduled scans, and team features. Browse the full feature catalogue for what each engine and lens checks, or read the documentation for installation, configuration, and the public API.

Sitemap Audit

How It Works

Why It Matters

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