# Sitemap not loading

> Sitemap not loading. Your store's sitemap, the file that hands Google the list of pages worth crawling, stopped loading, so until it loads again Google works…
> Category: Check reference
> Canonical: https://rabbot.ai/docs/checks/sitemap-xml-status/
> Updated: 2026-10-17

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Your pages · Critical · Rabbot alerts on this on every plan.

## What it means

Your store's sitemap, the file that hands Google the list of pages worth crawling, stopped loading, so until it loads again Google works from the last copy it fetched and is slower to pick up new or changed products.

## What to do

Usually a theme edit, an app that rewrites sitemap.xml, or a store-wide outage. Open your store's /sitemap.xml in a browser to see what loads. Rabbot re-checks automatically and will confirm when it's back.

## Related

- [Structured data broken](https://rabbot.ai/docs/checks/structured-data-invalid-json/)
- [Page title changed](https://rabbot.ai/docs/checks/title/)
- [Page title too long](https://rabbot.ai/docs/checks/title-pixel-overflow/)
- [Page content changed a lot](https://rabbot.ai/docs/checks/word-count/)
- [Tracking tag missing](https://rabbot.ai/docs/checks/analytics-lost/)
- [Shopify SEO guide](https://rabbot.ai/guides/shopify-seo/)