Check a website XML sitemap or sitemap index from the live origin. Toolmera reports reachability, entry counts, lastmod coverage and a sample of submitted URLs so you can catch obvious sitemap deployment problems quickly.
Free XML sitemap checker to test sitemap availability, distinguish URL sets from sitemap indexes, count entries, inspect lastmod usage and preview sitemap URLs.
The checker first looks for a sitemap declared in robots.txt on the same origin and otherwise tests the conventional /sitemap.xml location. It reports the final URL and HTTP status instead of assuming the file exists.
The XML is then inspected for url entries, child sitemap entries, loc values and lastmod tags. A sitemap index and a normal URL set are counted separately because they represent different layers of a sitemap architecture.
Entry counts are useful for catching accidental empty sitemaps, missing sections or a sitemap index that stopped including a child file. The sample URLs provide a quick sanity check that the sitemap points to the expected canonical host and path structure.
This is a lightweight validator, not a full crawl. It does not fetch every submitted URL or prove that Google has indexed them; it verifies the live sitemap file and its visible XML structure.
The checker counts lastmod elements so you can see whether update dates are present. Search engines may use trustworthy modification dates as a crawl signal, but repeatedly changing dates without meaningful page changes reduces their usefulness.
For large sites, keep sitemap generation deterministic, submit canonical indexable URLs and split oversized URL sets into sitemap indexes according to search-engine limits.
Toolmera looks for a same-origin sitemap declared in robots.txt and otherwise checks the conventional sitemap.xml path.
See whether the file is a URL set or sitemap index, how many entries it contains and whether lastmod tags are present.
Review the sample loc values for the expected canonical host and path structure, then validate indexing separately in Search Console.
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No. A sitemap can use another URL and can be declared in robots.txt or submitted directly to search engines.
Yes. It distinguishes child sitemap entries from normal URL entries.
No. A sitemap helps discovery but does not guarantee crawling or indexing.
lastmod is intended to represent when the referenced URL was meaningfully modified, using an accepted date or date-time format.
No. This checker validates the sitemap file itself and previews a limited number of loc entries.