Orphaned pages within the scanned sample

What it detects

One or more pages within the scanned sample have zero inbound links from any other sampled page and no reachable path from the homepage.

Why it matters

An agent that navigates by following links (rather than reading the sitemap directly) will never reach a page nothing links to, no matter how good that page's own content is.

How to fix

- Check the site's internal navigation, related-content blocks, and sitemap-style index/hub pages for a link to each page named in the finding's `examples`. - Link every published page from your navigation or a related-content block, or add it to a category/hub page that itself is linked from navigation — the goal is a real, followable `<a href>` path from the homepage. - If the page is deliberately unlinked (e.g. a legacy or landing-only URL), decide whether it should be removed from the sitemap too, since it's currently invisible to both link-crawling and sitemap-only agents in different ways. - Verify: starting from the homepage, follow only rendered `<a href>` links (no address-bar typing) and confirm you can reach the page within a few hops.

References

• RFC 9309 — Robots Exclusion Protocol
• Sitemaps protocol