diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS.md b/CONTRIBUTORS.md
index 7206d715..82ddba39 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS.md
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ We would like to thank the following people for their contributions to Crawl4AI:
 - [NanmiCoder](https://github.com/NanmiCoder) - fix: crawler strategy exception handling and fixes [#271](https://github.com/unclecode/crawl4ai/pull/271)
 - [paulokuong](https://github.com/paulokuong) - fix: RAWL4_AI_BASE_DIRECTORY should be Path object instead of string [#298](https://github.com/unclecode/crawl4ai/pull/298)
 - [TheRedRad](https://github.com/theredrad) - feat: add force viewport screenshot option [#1694](https://github.com/unclecode/crawl4ai/pull/1694)
+- [ChiragBellara](https://github.com/ChiragBellara) - fix: avoid Common Crawl calls for sitemap-only URL seeding [#1746](https://github.com/unclecode/crawl4ai/pull/1746)
 
 #### Feb-Alpha-1
 - [sufianuddin](https://github.com/sufianuddin) - fix: [Documentation for JsonCssExtractionStrategy](https://github.com/unclecode/crawl4ai/issues/651)
diff --git a/tests/general/test_url_seeder_for_only_sitemap.py b/tests/general/test_url_seeder_for_only_sitemap.py
index 892f3af7..63bb52df 100644
--- a/tests/general/test_url_seeder_for_only_sitemap.py
+++ b/tests/general/test_url_seeder_for_only_sitemap.py
@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
 import asyncio
+import pytest
 from crawl4ai import AsyncLogger, AsyncUrlSeeder, SeedingConfig
 from pathlib import Path
 import httpx
 
 
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
 async def test_sitemap_source_does_not_hit_commoncrawl():
     config = SeedingConfig(
         source="sitemap",