Sitemap Checker Check your XML sitemap, including index and child sitemaps
Enter a domain or sitemap URL. The checker finds the sitemaps and shows status, size, URL count and errors.
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Who may do what?
Check running Up to {n} user agents per check. Too many requests in a short time. Please wait a minute and try again. This domain was not found. Please check the spelling. The website did not respond in time. Please try again later. The check is taking unusually long. Please try again with fewer URLs. Please enter a valid address with a domain, for example www.example-shop.com/. The check didn't work. Please try again. Please use your business email address. That didn't work. Please try again.The result could not be displayed.
{urls} {word} checked with {agents}{end}
URL URLs . Only the first 100 URLs were checked.Found {found} links on {url} and checked {unique} unique targets with {agent} ({source}).{trunc}
Real user data from the Chrome UX Report, 75th percentile, {ff}, {mode}.
per URL per domain (origin)What limits apply to a sitemap?
A single sitemap may contain at most 50,000 URLs and be 50 MB uncompressed. Larger websites split their URLs across several files and combine them in a sitemap index.
| Check | What the checker shows |
|---|---|
| Availability | Status code, redirect, load time and content type. |
| Type | Sitemap index or URL list, plus image, video and news sitemaps. |
| Size | Number of entries and file size, measured against 50,000 URLs and 50 MB uncompressed. |
| Content | URLs with http://, URLs on other hosts, duplicate entries and missing lastmod. |
Sources: sitemaps.org, Google Search Central “Build and submit a sitemap”
XML sitemaps in the guideFind first, then check
If you only enter the domain, the checker looks in the robots.txt and under the usual paths. It works through the sitemaps it finds one by one, up to five per run. For each sitemap, it checks the first 2,000 URLs in detail.
- robots.txtAll entries with “Sitemap:”.
- Usual paths/sitemap.xml, /sitemap_index.xml and others.
- Sitemap indexUp to 20 child sitemaps are counted. The total is shown in the result.
- gzipThe checker reads compressed sitemaps directly.
/sitemap_index.xml200/sitemap-products-1.xml48,211 URLs/sitemap-products-2.xml50,880 URLs/sitemap-categories.xml404Frequently asked questions
Does the sitemap have to be submitted in Search Console?
Why does the checker look at lastmod?
Does the checker test every URL in the sitemap?
What about priority and changefreq?
How big can a sitemap index be?
What do you store from my request?
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