Sitemap Validator
Validate your XML sitemap for errors, structure issues, duplicate URLs, and SEO best practices.
Why Validate Your Sitemap?
Search engines rely on your XML sitemap to efficiently crawl and index your pages. If your sitemap has syntax errors, exceeds file size limits, or contains invalid tags, bots like Googlebot might drop it entirely, causing your content to remain unindexed.
Our Sitemap Validator performs a comprehensive check against the official sitemaps.org protocol.
What we check:
- XML Syntax: Ensures the file is well-formed XML.
- Root Element: Verifies the presence of
<urlset>or<sitemapindex>. - Required Tags: Checks that every entry has a valid
<loc>tag. - Size Limits: Ensures the URL count is under 50,000 and the file is under 50MB.
- Best Practices: Highlights duplicate URLs and missing
<lastmod>tags.