Sitemap validator and inspector

Is this sitemap valid, what does it list, and is anything in it unsafe or wasted?

Live lookupPlain English + technicalFree, no sign-up

How to read the results

The tree follows a sitemap index into each child sitemap.
Validation and security checks are listed as tables; findings explain how to improve.
A spread of 10 URLs is spot-checked to see if they still answer 200.

Check everything at once

The health check runs this and 30 more checks on a domain, then ranks what to fix.

About the Sitemap inspector

Download and validate a sitemap.xml against the sitemaps.org rules, follow sitemap index files, see what it contains, and catch XXE, script and injection risks.

Every result comes in two styles: plain English for everyone, and the exact technical detail for engineers, with the raw JSON one click away.

Questions

50,000 URLs and 50 MB uncompressed per file. Bigger sites split into several files listed in a sitemap index.

No. Google ignores both and uses lastmod only when it is accurate.

Sitemaps built from user content can carry script, javascript: links or XML entity tricks that attack tools which read them.

Sitemap validator and inspector

About the Sitemap inspector

Questions

What are the sitemap limits?

Does Google use changefreq and priority?

Why check a sitemap for security?