If the sitemap exposes fewer products than the live catalog, discovery and recrawl coverage are weaker than they should be.
Placeholder metadata and missing support links make important pages weaker candidates for durable indexing and ranking.
Products and category hubs should link directly into trust / testing / educational resources to strengthen crawl flow and topical clarity.
Published product count, sitemap count, newly missing URLs, research-hub metadata quality, and support-link presence on key pages.