Sitemap Validator

SEO sitemap validation tool. Checks errors, warnings, and passed items in detail.

Sitemap Validator Validate XML, TXT, RSS/Atom, and gzip sitemaps right from your browser — no accounts, no uploads to third-party servers, no waiting. Just open a sitemap, click the icon, and get a complete audit in seconds. WHAT IT CHECKS ────────────── ✅ Structural correctness — XML syntax, root tags, namespace, URL count limits, missing <loc> tags, URL schemes, URL length, and UTF-8 encoding are all verified against the official sitemaps.org specification. ✅ Lastmod quality — Detects invalid date formats, future dates, and lastmod values that are suspiciously concentrated on a single date. ✅ Domain authority — Flags URLs that belong to domains outside the sitemap's authority, including cross-domain mismatches and subdomain URLs that haven't been confirmed via robots.txt. ✅ robots.txt consistency — Cross-checks every URL against the site's robots.txt and warns when entries match a Disallow rule. Blocked URLs cannot be indexed, so they shouldn't be in the sitemap. Counts, percentages, and examples are surfaced inline. ✅ Orphan check — Tells you whether the page you're currently viewing is listed in the validated sitemap. Useful for catching important pages that have been accidentally left out. ✅ Extension sitemaps — Detects image, video, news, and mobile sitemap namespaces and validates their required fields and value formats. Extension types are shown as badge icons (🖼️ 🎬 📰 📱) in the popup header and in the discovered sitemap list. ✅ hreflang — For international sites, a dedicated tab checks namespace declarations, self-referencing links, duplicate language codes, BCP 47 format, reciprocal link integrity, and unofficial region codes (like "UK" instead of "GB"). A language-coverage matrix lets you spot gaps at a glance. ✅ Live URL inspection — After validation, the extension automatically fetches a random sample of 30 URLs and checks each one for HTTP status, redirects, canonical URL matches (✓/✗), lastmod drift (+N days / −N days), and noindex signals. Hover any cell for details — redirect destinations, side-by-side page/canonical URL comparison, and more. You can run additional checks in batches, filter results by issue type, or search by URL substring. Findings (error responses, noindex, redirects, canonical mismatches) are escalated to the summary and reflected in the health score. If you close the popup mid-check, the remaining URLs continue processing in the background and the results are restored when you reopen it. Export everything to CSV when you're done. 🔍 SITEMAP DISCOVERY ────────────── You don't always need to know a sitemap's URL in advance. Sitemap Validator reads the current page's robots.txt and lists every sitemap it finds. A badge icon (✓) appears on tabs where a sitemap was detected. Validate any of them with one click — or run a bulk check across all discovered sitemaps at once. Validation results stay available as you browse within the same site. They're only cleared when you navigate to a different domain or close the tab. 📂 LOCAL FILE VALIDATION ────────────── Working on a sitemap before it goes live? Use the 📂 button to load a file directly from your computer. The extension treats it as if it were hosted on the current tab's domain, so domain authority checks still make sense. No file ever leaves your machine. ℹ️ TRANSPARENCY PER CHECK ────────────── Every check result has an ℹ icon. Click it to see the exact passage from the sitemaps.org spec or Google Search Central documentation that the check is based on. When a colleague asks why something is flagged, you'll have a source to point to. HOW TO USE ────────────── 1. Open any sitemap URL (e.g. https://example.com/sitemap.xml), or navigate to any page on the site you want to audit. 2. Click the Sitemap Validator icon in the Chrome toolbar. 3. The sitemap URL fills in automatically. Hit Validate — or load a local file with 📂. 4. Review the health score and work through errors and warnings from top to bottom. 5. Check the URL Sample tab to see how your URLs behave in practice. 6. If your sitemap uses hreflang, open the hreflang tab to verify language coverage. 7. Any sitemaps found in robots.txt appear at the bottom — validate them individually or in bulk. 🔒 PRIVACY & PERMISSIONS ────────────── Everything runs locally. Your sitemap content and audit results never leave your browser. Audit results are held in Chrome's session storage and cleared automatically when you close the tab or the browser. For input convenience, only the most recently validated sitemap URLs (up to 10) are kept in local storage. The extension requests: • activeTab — to read the current tab's URL • storage — to temporarily hold audit results and remember recently validated URLs • Access to all URLs — to fetch sitemaps, check URLs, and auto-detect sitemaps from the current page, directly without any proxy 🏢 ABOUT THE DEVELOPER ────────────── Sitemap Validator is developed and maintained by Ayudante, Inc., a Japan-based SEO consulting company. For inquiries or SEO consulting, please visit our website. Website: https://www.ayudante.jp/