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Find the Sitemap of Any Website (Sitemap Checker)

Paste a site and see every sitemap it publishes: the ones robots.txt declares and the common paths, each with its type, its URL count and whether the XML parsed.

Before an AI agent, a search engine or a vendor's crawler can read your site, it needs to know which pages exist. The sitemap is that list. Most sites have one somewhere; fewer people know where it is, whether robots.txt points at it, or whether the file at /sitemap.xml is current or a leftover from a platform migration two years ago. When you are handing a site to a crawler — to build a help center agent, to audit what is public — "where is the sitemap" is the first question, and asking engineering takes a day.

This tool answers it in a few seconds. Paste the site's address. It fetches robots.txt and reads every Sitemap: line, then tries the common locations — /sitemap.xml, /sitemap_index.xml, /sitemap-index.xml, /wp-sitemap.xml and /sitemap/sitemap.xml. For each sitemap it finds it reports the type (an index of other sitemaps, or a plain urlset), how many URLs it lists, and whether the XML parsed. The fetches use WireDesk's own crawler, the one that reads a customer's site to build an agent. Nothing you paste is stored beyond a short cache of the result.

This ran once, on one input. The product runs on your whole site, every conversation.

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How to read it

What each input means

  1. 01

    Site URL

    The home page, with the scheme: https://www.example.com. Subdomains are separate sites to a crawler, so if the help center lives at help.example.com, run it once for each. You don't need to know where the sitemap is; that is the point.

  2. 02

    Declared in robots.txt

    Sitemaps listed on a Sitemap: line in robots.txt appear first. These are the ones crawlers are told about, so they are the authoritative set. If this section is empty, your site relies on crawlers guessing.

  3. 03

    Found at a common path

    The tool also tries the five paths most platforms use. A sitemap found here but not declared in robots.txt still works for crawlers that guess, but a Sitemap: line costs nothing and removes the guess.

  4. 04

    Type, count and parsed

    Index means the file points at other sitemaps; urlset means it lists pages directly. The count is what the file declares. "Parsed" is whether the XML was well-formed; a sitemap that fetches but doesn't parse is invisible to a crawler.

FAQ

Questions about this tool

At /sitemap.xml on the root of the host, nine times out of ten. WordPress sites made after 5.5 use /wp-sitemap.xml unless an SEO plugin overrides it; Shopify and most hosted platforms use /sitemap.xml as an index. The only reliable pointer is the Sitemap: line in robots.txt, which is why the tool reads that first.