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Sitemap Checker
Free sitemap checker.
Paste a URL to check your XML sitemap. We find it via /robots.txt and common paths, parse it, check each URL, and flag broken links, duplicates, wrong domains, and other SEO issues.
What this sitemap checker looks for
- Whether your sitemap is reachable and returns valid XML
- URLs in the sitemap that return 4xx/5xx errors
- URLs that redirect (should point to final URLs, not redirects)
- Duplicate URLs
- URLs on a different domain (usually a misconfiguration)
- Static assets that shouldn't be in a sitemap
- Missing
<lastmod>timestamps - Sitemaps that exceed the 50,000 URL / 50MB cap
How it finds your sitemap
We check robots.txt for Sitemap: directives, and if that comes up empty we fall back to /sitemap.xml and /sitemap_index.xml. If your sitemap is a sitemap-index, we recursively follow each child sitemap up to 3 levels deep.
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