SEO
Sitemap Checker
Your sitemap under the microscope: XML, URLs and statuses verified.
Your sitemap is the map you hand to Google: if it's invalid, incomplete or littered with dead addresses, your indexing pays the price — silently. Paste your sitemap's URL (or just your site's address): the tool validates the XML, counts the declared URLs, detects index sitemaps and their children, then tests a sample of addresses to confirm they respond correctly. Structural errors and failing URLs are listed clearly, ready to fix. It's a check worth repeating after every redesign, migration or CMS change, since sitemaps break most often exactly then. Free, no account required, results in seconds.
How does it work?
- Paste the sitemap URL — or the site's address, the tool will find it.
- Click "Check".
- Review the results: XML validity, URL count, child sitemaps.
- Fix the errors and failing URLs listed in the sample.
Frequently asked questions
What is an XML sitemap for?
It tells search engines which pages to crawl, where they live and when they change. It doesn't guarantee indexing, but it speeds up the discovery of new pages — especially on deep or recently launched sites.
Which errors does the tool detect?
Invalid or badly encoded XML, empty sitemaps, index files whose child sitemaps are unreachable, and declared URLs that respond with errors (404s, redirects, server errors) in the tested sample.
Why is only a sample of URLs tested?
To stay fast and avoid hammering your server: ten representative addresses are enough to reveal a systemic problem. A healthy sitemap should contain zero failing URLs — every failure in the sample deserves a fix.
Can a sitemap contain redirects?
It shouldn't: every declared URL must respond directly with a 200. Redirects waste crawl budget and blur the signal you send Google — always declare the final address.