Sitemap Validator

Validate XML sitemaps for correct structure, URLs, dates, and priorities. Find errors and warnings instantly. Supports urlset and sitemapindex.

How It Works

1

Paste your XML sitemap

Paste the contents of your sitemap.xml file. The tool accepts both urlset and sitemapindex formats.

2

See validation results

The tool parses the XML, checks structure, validates dates, priorities, and change frequencies, and flags duplicates.

3

Review stats and warnings

See total URL count, how many have lastmod/priority, and any errors or warnings that need attention.

FAQ

Standard XML sitemaps with root containing entries, and sitemap indexes with root containing entries.
Valid XML structure, required root elements, in each entry, date format in , priority range (0.0-1.0), valid changefreq values, and duplicate URL detection.
always, hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, and never. These are hints to crawlers, not guarantees.
Per the sitemap protocol, a single sitemap file should contain at most 50,000 URLs and be no larger than 50MB uncompressed. Use a sitemap index to split larger sites. Also check your robots.txt references your sitemap.

Built & Maintained by Varstatt

Varstatt is a one-person product studio run by Jurij Tokarski, product engineer since 2011. These tools are free and open — no signup, no catch.