Sitemap Analysis & Generation

When to Use

• Use when analyzing an existing XML sitemap or generating a new one.
• Use when the user mentions sitemap issues, sitemap generation, or sitemap validation.
• Use when checking URL coverage, sitemap limits, and sitemap quality rules.

Mode 1: Analyze Existing Sitemap

Validation Checks

• Valid XML format
• At most 50,000 URLs and 50 MB uncompressed per sitemap; split when either limit is exceeded
• All URLs return HTTP 200
• <lastmod> reflects actual significant page updates; identical dates can be valid if the pages really changed together
• <priority> and <changefreq> are valid protocol fields but ignored by Google
• Sitemap referenced in robots.txt
• Compare crawled pages vs sitemap; flag missing pages