Free tool

Sitemap checker

Your sitemap should list live, final, indexable pages only. Spot check a random sample and see what Google finds when it follows it.

Enter an address and run the check. Results show here in a few seconds.

Assumptions and limits

We read up to 500 URLs, from up to 10 child sitemaps when you have a sitemap index.
We spot check a random sample of 20 with a quick header request. Run it again for a different sample.
The noindex check reads the X-Robots-Tag header only. A noindex inside the page's HTML needs the noindex and robots checker.
We fetch the page once, as an anonymous visitor with no cookies, from Cloudflare's network.
No JavaScript is executed. Anything a script adds after the page loads is invisible to this check.
It is one sample, taken now. Pages that vary by location, device or time can answer differently for someone else.
Each fetch waits up to 10 seconds, follows up to 10 redirects and reads up to 1 MB.
We don't store the address you check or the result. You can run 30 checks every 10 minutes.

See our service terms at pricing/terms.

What it checks

Finds your sitemap

From the address you enter, your robots.txt, or /sitemap.xml.
Reads up to 500 URLs

Including child sitemaps in a sitemap index, and gzip files.
Spot checks 20 at random

Status codes, redirects and X-Robots-Tag noindex headers.

Crawl budget, spent well

Every SEO plan we run keeps the sitemap tidy and in sync with the pages that should rank.