Checks / Links, canonical and speed
Sitemap has no useful last-modified dates
Crawlers use lastmod to decide which pages to fetch again. Missing dates, or one date on every URL, tell them nothing.
sitemap_lastmod · Links, canonical and speed · Notice
What to change
Write each URL's real last-changed date in <lastmod>.
How common it is
In the audits of our own sites on 26 Oct 2026 (4 sites): finding judged right on civiqpass.com, hexaciv.com.
Source: finding audit 2026-10-26 (English).
About this check
| Check ID | sitemap_lastmod |
|---|---|
| Report section | Links, canonical and speed |
| Severity | Notice |
| How it is decided | Measured: read directly from the page or the server's response. |
| Added | Before 19 Oct 2026 (versions 1 and 2), or a site-wide check with no version date yet |
| Status | Measured in every report |
| Report gives the code | No, the fix is described in words |
Related checks
- Sitemap has invalid entries
- No sitemap.xml
- robots.txt does not name your sitemap
- Sitemap dates are older than the pages' own
- Sitemap and site disagree
- Broken internal links
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