Find and validate all sitemaps on any website instantly. Discover hidden sitemaps, check validity, and extract total URL counts. Perfect for SEO audits and website analysis.
Enter any website URL to discover all available sitemaps. The tool will check robots.txt for sitemap declarations and scan common sitemap locations. It will validate accessibility and extract URL counts from each sitemap found.
Enter the main domain (e.g., example.com). The tool will check for sitemaps automatically.
The Sitemap Finder & Checker is a powerful tool that automatically discovers all sitemaps on any website. It performs comprehensive scans by checking the robots.txt file for sitemap declarations and testing common sitemap locations where webmasters typically place their sitemaps.
Unlike manual searching, this tool automates the entire discovery process. It checks over 20 common sitemap locations including standard paths like /sitemap.xml, platform-specific paths like /wp-sitemap.xml for WordPress, and content-specific sitemaps like /post-sitemap.xml, /product-sitemap.xml, and more.
For each sitemap found, the tool validates its accessibility, checks HTTP status codes, extracts metadata like content type and file size, and counts the total number of URLs. This comprehensive analysis helps you understand a website's sitemap structure and identify any accessibility issues.
/sitemap.xml/sitemap_index.xml/sitemap-index.xml/sitemaps.xml/post-sitemap.xml/page-sitemap.xml/product-sitemap.xml/category-sitemap.xml/wp-sitemap.xml/blog/sitemap.xml/sitemap/sitemap.xml/news-sitemap.xml/video-sitemap.xml/image-sitemap.xmlrobots.txt referencesMost crawlers look at /sitemap.xml and a short list of common variants. A sitemap at an unusual path, such as /wp-sitemap-posts-post-1.xml or a CDN subdomain, is invisible unless something points to it. The fix is to declare it in robots.txt, which is the one place every crawler checks.
A Sitemap: line in robots.txt is how you tell crawlers where to look without relying on guesswork. It costs one line, works for every search engine, and is the single most common thing missing when a site has a sitemap that nothing can find.
Large sites split their sitemap into an index file that links to child sitemaps. If a tool reports one sitemap containing almost no URLs, you are probably looking at the index rather than the children. Open it and follow the nested entries.
A sitemap that answers with 404, 403 or 500 does not exist as far as any crawler is concerned. Firewalls and bot protection are frequent culprits, and they often block automated tools while still serving the file to you in a browser.
Disallowing the directory a sitemap lives in prevents crawlers from fetching it, even though the URL resolves. Check that no Disallow rule covers the sitemap path itself.
Common on hand-built sites and on CMS installs where the feature was never switched on. A sitemap is not mandatory and a small, well-linked site can be crawled without one, but it is cheap insurance on anything larger than a few dozen pages.
/sitemap.xml at the root of the domain is the convention, and there is no benefit to using anything else. What matters more is that robots.txt points to it and that Search Console knows about it.
It is not mandatory, but it is the most reliable way to be discovered. Add a line reading Sitemap: https://example.com/sitemap.xml and every crawler that reads robots.txt will find it.
No, and this is the most common misunderstanding about sitemaps. A sitemap helps Google discover URLs. Whether it indexes them is a separate judgement based on the quality of each page. A page can sit in your sitemap for months and never be indexed.
50,000 URLs, or 50MB uncompressed, whichever comes first. Beyond that you split into multiple files and list them in a sitemap index. Most CMS plugins handle the split automatically.
No. A sitemap should list canonical URLs that return 200 and that you want indexed. Including noindex pages, redirects or 404s sends conflicting signals and wastes crawl attention on URLs you have already told Google to ignore.
Submit it in Search Console, or reference it in robots.txt and let Google recrawl. The old sitemap ping endpoint was retired by Google in 2024, so tools and plugins that still ping it are doing nothing useful.