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✓ Sitemap is valid
XML Sitemap Validator
Validates a sitemap.xml (or sitemap index) against the Sitemaps 0.9 protocol. All checks run in your browser, no data is sent to any server.
Checks performed
- Errors: invalid XML structure, missing namespace, incorrect
lastmoddate format, duplicate URLs - Warnings: invalid
changefreqvalue,priorityoutside [0, 1], more than 50,000 URLs per file - Sitemap index files (
<sitemapindex>) are also supported
Sitemap protocol reference
| Field | Required | Description |
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loc | Yes | The URL of the page (must be absolute) |
lastmod | No | Last modification date (ISO 8601: YYYY-MM-DD) |
changefreq | No | How often the page changes (always, hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, never) |
priority | No | Relative importance (0.0 to 1.0, default 0.5) |
Sitemap limits (per Google guidelines)
- Maximum 50,000 URLs per sitemap file
- Maximum 50 MB uncompressed file size
- For larger sites, use a sitemap index to reference multiple sitemap files
- Submit your sitemap URL to Google Search Console for faster indexing