XML Sitemap Viewer

Most sites keep their sitemap at /sitemap.xml or /sitemap_index.xml, and the location is often listed in the site's robots.txt file under a 'Sitemap:' line. Paste any domain into this tool and it locates the sitemap for you, then lists every URL it contains. If the site uses a sitemap index (a sitemap that points to other sitemaps), the tool expands each child sitemap so you can browse them all in one place.

The lastmod value is the date the page's content was last changed, as declared by the site itself. Search engines use it as a hint for when to recrawl a URL, but it's self-reported and not always accurate; some CMSs stamp today's date on every page regardless of real edits. This tool surfaces the lastmod for each URL so you can spot which pages a site claims to have updated recently and which haven't moved in a long time.

No, Google has stated it largely ignores the priority and changefreq tags and instead determines crawl frequency from its own signals. Priority (0.0 to 1.0) and changefreq (e.g. daily, weekly, monthly) are only weak hints, and they have no effect on where a page ranks. They're still useful for understanding how a site owner has structured and prioritized their own pages, which is why this tool displays both columns for every URL.

A single sitemap file is capped at 50,000 URLs and 50MB uncompressed. Larger sites split their URLs across multiple sitemaps and tie them together with a sitemap index file. This tool detects whether you've loaded a standard sitemap or an index, shows the total URL count across all child sitemaps, and lets you search and filter the full list to find specific pages.

Comparing a site's sitemap over time reveals new pages (launches, blog posts, landing pages) and removed ones (discontinued products, pulled content), since most changes show up there before you'd notice them by browsing. This tool reads a sitemap once so you can inspect the current URL list; to catch changes automatically, SiteGauge re-checks the sitemap on a schedule and alerts you the moment a URL is added or removed. That's a practical way to track a competitor's roadmap and quietly retired pages without checking manually.