Sitemap Validator — Check Your XML Sitemap (Free)

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What you get

URLs

How many URLs, across how many files

Sample health

Status codes of a sample of URLs

Freshness

How recently pages were updated

Errors

Format, limits, wrong host

About the XML Sitemap Validator

An XML sitemap lists the pages you want search engines to find. A good sitemap holds only live, canonical, indexable URLs with honest lastmod dates; a bad one is full of redirects, 404s and URLs from the wrong host — and Google starts trusting it less.

Enter a domain (Nuqti finds the sitemap from robots.txt) or a sitemap URL. Nuqti parses it — including sitemap indexes and gzip — validates the format and limits, charts lastmod freshness and checks the status of a sample of URLs.

How to use it

1Enter a URLAny public page, e.g. https://example.com/page.
2Watch the check run liveEach step appears the moment it finishes — no waiting on a blank screen.
3Sign in free with GoogleSave your results and keep using every Nuqti tool on the free plan.

Frequently asked questions

Where is my sitemap?

Usually /sitemap.xml or /sitemap_index.xml, and it should be listed in robots.txt with a 'Sitemap:' line.

What are the sitemap limits?

50,000 URLs and 50 MB (uncompressed) per file. Bigger sites use a sitemap index that lists several sitemaps.

Should redirected or 404 URLs be in my sitemap?

No. Only include the final, 200-status, canonical version of each page.

Does lastmod matter?

Google uses lastmod when it's consistently accurate. Don't set every page to today's date.

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