XML sitemap checker
Find your XML sitemaps, read up to 10 files including sitemap indexes, and check the URLs in them: errors, lastmod dates, duplicates and URLs blocked by robots.txt.
Free and unlimited: does not use your weekly runsWhat the sitemap checker does
Enter a domain or a sitemap URL. With a domain the tool looks for the Sitemap lines in robots.txt, and else at /sitemap.xml and /sitemap_index.xml. It reads a sitemap index and its child sitemaps, up to 10 files, gzip included.
It counts the URLs per file and checks them: duplicates, URLs on another host, http where the site uses https, the lastmod dates (missing, malformed, in the future, or all the same), URLs that robots.txt blocks for Googlebot, and the status of the first 10 URLs.
A good sitemap
A sitemap lists only the final, indexable URLs you want in search results: no redirects, no errors, nothing robots.txt blocks, nothing with a noindex. At most 50,000 URLs and 50 MB per file; use a sitemap index for more. An accurate lastmod helps search engines find changed pages sooner.
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Frequently asked questions
Does this tool count towards my free runs?
No. It is free and unlimited, apart from a limit per site per hour.
My sitemap has more files than the tool reads.
A free check reads 10 files. The site audit in the app reads them all and compares the sitemap with what it finds on the site: orphan pages, missing pages and noindex pages in the sitemap.
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