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The URL responds, but the body does not open as an XML urlset or sitemapindex.

Consequence. A sitemap that is not valid XML is discarded. A common cause is the URL resolving to an HTML error page or a redirect to the home page.

If that is not intended. Confirm the URL serves XML beginning with <urlset> or <sitemapindex>, and that it is served as application/xml or text/xml.

• https://builtin.com/sitemaps.txtL21HTTP 200, but the body does not open as XML (Content-Type: text/plain)
• https://builtin.com/sitemaps-1.txtL22HTTP 200, but the body does not open as XML (Content-Type: text/plain)
• https://builtin.com/sitemaps-2.txtL23HTTP 200, but the body does not open as XML (Content-Type: text/plain)
• https://builtin.com/sitemaps-3.txtL24HTTP 200, but the body does not open as XML (Content-Type: text/plain)
• https://builtin.com/sitemaps-4.txtL25HTTP 200, but the body does not open as XML (Content-Type: text/plain)
• https://builtin.com/sitemaps-5.txtL26HTTP 200, but the body does not open as XML (Content-Type: text/plain)
• https://builtin.com/sitemaps-6.txtL27HTTP 200, but the body does not open as XML (Content-Type: text/plain)
• https://builtin.com/sitemaps-7.txtL28HTTP 200, but the body does not open as XML (Content-Type: text/plain)
• https://builtin.com/sitemaps-8.txtL29HTTP 200, but the body does not open as XML (Content-Type: text/plain)

A broader rule of the same type already covers these paths.

Consequence. These lines change nothing. They are harmless, but they add length to a file that has a size limit, and they make the real policy harder to read.

If that is not intended. Remove the redundant rules, or narrow the broader rule if it is catching more than intended.

• disallow: /search/L88Already covered by "disallow: /search" on line 180

Wildcard patterns name no location, but suggest such files may exist under public paths.

Consequence. A pattern such as "/*.sql$" discloses nothing a reader can request directly. It does say what kind of file the site expects to have lying around.

If that is not intended. Verify that files matching these patterns are not served.

• Disallow: /jobs/*dev-engineering/*sales-engineerL132"dev" below the first level

All 6 checked search engines are allowed at the site root.

All 4 checked AI answer engines are allowed at the site root.

All 3 checked user-triggered AI fetches are allowed at the site root.

All 5 checked social link previews are allowed at the site root.

All 6 checked AI training crawlers are allowed at the site root.

The page sends no robots meta tag and no X-Robots-Tag header.

These sitemaps were not seen: each was blocked for our bot, left out by a limit, or did not answer in time. Each line says which.

Consequence. Nothing is known about whether they work. They are not counted against the file.

• https://builtin.com/sitemaps-9.txtL30Not fetched: only the first few sitemaps are fetched, within a time limit and the site's Crawl-delay
• https://builtin.com/companies/sitemap.xmlL31Not fetched: only the first few sitemaps are fetched, within a time limit and the site's Crawl-delay
• https://builtin.com/job-board-sitemap.xmlL32Not fetched: only the first few sitemaps are fetched, within a time limit and the site's Crawl-delay
• https://builtin.com/learning-labs/sitemap.xmlL33Not fetched: only the first few sitemaps are fetched, within a time limit and the site's Crawl-delay

Every line parses as a directive crawlers understand.

Comfortably within the 500 KB that crawlers will read.