Confirm your sitemap.xml exists, is valid XML, and is referenced from robots.txt — plus the crawl signals search engines use to find your pages. Free and instant.
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A sitemap.xml is a machine-readable list of the pages you want search engines to crawl. This tool fetches your live site and confirms the sitemap is present, valid XML, and referenced from robots.txt — then checks the crawl signals around it (HTTP status, HTTP→HTTPS, www consolidation, soft-404s, canonical, and indexability), because a perfect sitemap doesn’t help if the pages it lists can’t be crawled or indexed.
A broken or missing sitemap is one of the most common reasons pages sit undiscovered. Getting it right — and making sure the pages it points to are actually crawlable and indexable — is the fastest way to help search engines find everything you’ve published.
Enter your domain above. AnswerScope fetches the live site, confirms your sitemap.xml exists and is valid XML, checks that it is referenced from robots.txt, and validates the surrounding crawl signals (HTTP status, redirects, canonical, indexability).
The convention is your-domain.com/sitemap.xml, and you should reference it from robots.txt with a "Sitemap:" line. Search engines look in both places. If it lives elsewhere, make sure robots.txt points to it.
The usual causes are: it returns a non-200 status, it is not valid XML, it is not referenced in robots.txt, or it lists URLs that redirect or are blocked from indexing. This tool flags each of those.
It is strongly recommended, especially for larger or newer sites. A sitemap helps search engines discover your pages faster and more completely — it does not guarantee indexing, but it removes a common reason pages get missed.