XML Sitemap Analyzer

Google recommends keeping sitemaps under 50,000 URLs and 50MB uncompressed. For larger sites, use multiple sitemaps with a sitemap index file. Our analyzer checks these limits automatically.

Update your sitemap whenever you add, remove, or significantly modify pages. Many CMS platforms automatically update sitemaps, but manual sites require regular maintenance.

Priority indicates the relative importance of pages on your site (0.0-1.0), while changefreq suggests how often the page content changes. Both are hints to search engines, not directives.

Include only pages you want indexed: high-quality, canonical pages that provide value to users. Exclude duplicate content, private pages, thank-you pages, and pages blocked by robots.txt.

A sitemap index file lists multiple sitemap files, useful for large sites or organizing sitemaps by content type (posts, pages, products). Use when you have multiple sitemaps or exceed size limits.

Create separate sitemaps for each language or use hreflang annotations in a single sitemap. Include all language versions and use proper hreflang markup to indicate language relationships.

Common errors include unreachable URLs, redirect chains, and blocked pages. Fix the underlying issues, update your sitemap, and resubmit it to Google Search Console for re-processing.

Yes, use specialized image and video sitemaps or include image/video information in your main sitemap. This helps search engines discover and index your media content more effectively.

Google typically processes sitemap updates within a few days to weeks, depending on your site's crawl frequency and authority. Monitor indexing status in Google Search Console.

XML sitemaps are for search engines, providing metadata about pages. HTML sitemaps are for users, offering navigation and page discovery. Both serve different purposes and can coexist.

Yes, submit sitemaps to Google Search Console, Bing Webmaster Tools, and other search engines you want to target. Also reference your sitemap in robots.txt for automatic discovery.

Use Google Search Console's Sitemaps report to monitor submitted URLs, indexed pages, and any errors. Track indexing rates and identify pages that aren't being crawled or indexed.