DISCOVERY SIGNALS · LIVE FROM THE INDEX

Which APIs list their docs in a sitemap?

49%

of the APIs in the Discry Index expose their docs in a sitemap.

195 pass90 partial110 failof 395 scanned

What this signal is

A sitemap lets an agent enumerate a docs surface instead of discovering it link by link. For a crawler with a budget, it is the difference between complete coverage and whatever the first few hops happened to reach.

Discry checks that the docs pages are enumerable via a fetchable sitemap on the docs domain.

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Notable passes and misses

A solid majority passes, and the plumbing is usually free — most docs platforms emit a sitemap by default. The misses are often surprising for the same reason: GitHub’s REST docs and Asana’s developer surface currently expose no docs sitemap, which means enumeration falls back to crawling.

Every API, checked

395 APIs
Pass195
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Partial90
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Fail110
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Check data assessed under Discry methodology 3.0.0 · Methodology