What the smoke check found This morning I ran a manual smoke check on all three Cloudflare Pages sites — aiappdex.com, findindiegame.com, ossfind.com — as part of investigating an unrelated robots.txt issue. Every robots.txt declared: Sitemap: https://aiappdex.com/sitemap-index.xml Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode Standard declaration. But hitting the URL directly returned 404. Not a redirect, not a permissions error — 404. I checked all three domains. Same result everywhere. The sites launched 2026-04-23. They've been live for 15 days. Every crawl that honored robots.txt and tried to fetch the sitemap got a dead end. I don't know how much this affected indexing velocity — I'll have actual crawl coverage data in 30 days — but it's the kind of silent failure that validates doing manual checks even when automated pipelines look green. The file that did exist was /sitemap-0.xml . Every site had that, with proper XML structure and valid URLs. It just wasn't at the path anything was looking for.…