Sitemap Validator
Instant XML Analysis

An XML sitemap lists all important pages of your website, helping search engines like Google discover and index your content faster. It's a key part of technical SEO, especially for large websites or pages not easily found through normal crawling.

Most websites place it at yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml or yourdomain.com/sitemap_index.xml. Check your robots.txt (yourdomain.com/robots.txt) — it usually lists the sitemap URL with a "Sitemap:" directive.

A sitemap index uses <sitemapindex> as the root element and points to multiple individual sitemaps. Common for large sites splitting URLs across multiple files. Google supports up to 50,000 URLs per sitemap and up to 500 sitemaps in an index.

Priority (0.0–1.0) hints at the relative importance of a URL. Changefreq (daily, weekly, monthly, etc.) suggests how often content changes. Note: Google largely ignores both values in modern crawling — they're treated as hints, not instructions.

Via Google Search Console: go to Indexing → Sitemaps, enter your sitemap URL, click Submit. Also add to robots.txt: Sitemap: https://yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml