Goal

• Provide summary information about all of the available content that is machine-readable.
• Reduce the energy impact related to the consultation of the site.
• Improve the way content is taken into account by search engines and indexing tools.

Implementation

Create a sitemap.xml file containing the listing of pages at the root of the website. If the XML format is not used, search engines accept a simple listing of URLs.

Control

Using the URL of the website checked:

• Check that there is a sitemap.xml file at the root of the site, by accessing it directly in the browser with a URL of the type http://example.com/sitemap.xml;
• Otherwise, consult the robots.txt file to find a specific URL mentioned in the format sitemap: http://example.com/address/ofthe/file.xml.

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