Sitemap discovery tool

Sitemap Finder

Enter a domain to find its XML sitemap. The finder checks Sitemap directives in robots.txt first, then common locations used by standard sites and WordPress.

Free, no signup. We find the sitemap and validate its XML structure without crawling individual page URLs.

How the sitemap finder works

The finder normalizes the website URL, requests the public robots.txt file, and reads any Sitemap directives it contains. If no usable sitemap is declared there, it tries common paths such as /sitemap.xml, /sitemap_index.xml, /sitemap-index.xml, /wp-sitemap.xml, and /sitemaps.xml.

When the discovered file is a sitemap index, the checker can follow child sitemap files within bounded limits and show how many sitemap documents and URLs were found.

This finder intentionally skips page-level live URL crawling. Use the Sitemap URL Checker when you want to test redirects, HTTP failures, noindex directives, and canonical signals inside the sitemap.

A missing robots.txt declaration does not automatically make a sitemap invalid. It simply means the checker found the sitemap another way.

Found the sitemap and want to test the URLs it contains? Continue with the Sitemap URL Checker.