Sitemap Checker

Check that your XML sitemap is found and healthy

An XML sitemap lists the pages you want search engines to crawl. When it is missing, broken or full of redirected and stale URLs, new pages are found late and old ones linger. Enter a domain and the checker looks for sitemaps the way crawlers do: it reads the Sitemap: lines in robots.txt and tries the common locations used by WordPress, Yoast, Rank Math and most site builders. You can also enter one sitemap URL to check just that file.

What you get

• Every sitemap found, with how it was discovered, its HTTP status and whether it is a sitemap index or a URL set.
• Sitemap indexes followed to their child sitemaps, so the URL count covers the whole site (up to 25 files per run).
• URL counts and lastmod range, which show at a glance whether the sitemap is maintained or frozen in time.
• Errors and warnings: invalid XML, wrong status codes, URLs on another host, duplicate entries, invalid or future lastmod dates, priority values outside 0.0 to 1.0, files over the 50,000 URL limit and sitemaps that are not referenced in robots.txt.
• A searchable URL table with lastmod, changefreq, priority and image counts, plus a CSV export of every URL.

Sitemap good practice

List only canonical URLs that answer 200 and that you want indexed: no redirects, no noindex pages, no parameters that create duplicates. Keep lastmod honest, because Google ignores it on sites where it is always "now". Add a Sitemap: line to robots.txt and submit the sitemap or index in Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools. Google ignores the priority and changefreq fields, so you can leave them out.