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Sitemap Checker

Check whether a website has an XML sitemap.

Enter a domain to check whether it has an XML sitemap.

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What Is the Sitemap Checker?

An XML sitemap lists the pages you want search engines to find. This tool checks whether a website has a sitemap at the standard /sitemap.xml location and whether it is reachable.

When to Use It

Before submitting a sitemap to Google Search Console or Bing Webmaster Tools.
After launching a site or changing your CMS or SEO plugin.

How to Use It

Enter the domain.
Check whether the sitemap was found and loads correctly.

Understanding the Result

A found sitemap should return 200 and valid XML. Large sites often use a sitemap index that points to several smaller sitemaps. Each sitemap can hold up to 50,000 URLs.

Limitations

Some CMSs use other paths such as /sitemap_index.xml or /wp-sitemap.xml; the most reliable way to declare a custom location is a Sitemap: line in robots.txt - check it with the Robots.txt Checker.

Frequently Asked Questions

It's most valuable for larger sites or sites with pages that are hard for crawlers to discover through normal internal linking alone - very small, simply-linked sites benefit less, but a sitemap rarely hurts and is generally recommended.

Common issues include malformed XML syntax, URLs that don't actually match your domain, or listed pages that themselves return an error - all of which can cause search engines to partially or fully reject the sitemap.

No - a sitemap is a discovery aid, telling search engines which pages exist and suggesting priority, but indexing itself still depends on content quality, crawl budget, and the search engine's own independent evaluation.

Yes - large sites commonly split content into multiple sitemap files (e.g. separate sitemaps for blog posts, products, categories) referenced together by a single sitemap index file.

Ideally, it should automatically regenerate whenever content changes - a stale sitemap listing removed pages or missing new ones provides search engines with less accurate signals than an up-to-date one.

Conventionally at the root of your domain (yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml), which is also the default location most search engines check for automatically, though any location referenced correctly in robots.txt also works.