When to use it
Inspect whether a live sitemap is structurally reachable and whether a sample of listed URLs looks indexable.
Crawl & indexing
Sitemap Validator
Fetch a live sitemap or sitemap index, recurse through a bounded set of child sitemaps, and sample discovered URLs for status, canonical, robots, and noindex signals.
Uses a protected server check
Run the tool
Only public web targets are accepted. Private and reserved network ranges are blocked.
What this check means
Bounded to 8 sitemap documents, 200 discovered URLs, recursion depth 2, and a 50-URL health sample; it does not submit the sitemap to a search engine.