CHECK GLOSSARY · SITEMAP-002

Sitemap missing lastmod

In plain words: Without lastmod, Google must guess what changed and recrawls blindly.

How to fix it

Emit real modification dates in lastmod.

Official sources

• Google: Build a sitemap

Related checks

• CONTENT-DUP: Near-duplicate pages
• SITEMAP-001: Broken URLs in sitemap
• ROBOTS-001: No sitemap in robots.txt
• ROBOTS-002: robots.txt blocks CSS/JS

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