seo-sitemap

Run the sitemap analysis mode against your site URL. It discovers sitemaps from robots.txt declarations and common paths, then checks XML validity, HTTP 200 status for all URLs, lastmod accuracy, and Google's 50,000 URL / 50MB limits, outputting a severity-ranked report.

Use the generation mode, which asks for your business type, loads an industry template, and plans the structure interactively. It applies quality gates on programmatic pages, splits output at 50,000 URLs or 50MB with a sitemap index, and produces STRUCTURE.md documentation.

A single sitemap file is limited to 50,000 URLs and 50MB uncompressed, whichever is hit first. News sitemaps have a stricter cap of 1,000 entries and should only include articles from the last 2 days. Larger sites must split files using a sitemap index.

No, Google ignores the priority and changefreq tags, so they are flagged as info-level removable items during validation. Google only honours lastmod when values are consistently accurate and reflect real content changes.

A robots.txt Sitemap line alone does not prove the sitemap works; the target may be stale or invalid. The discovery helper validates declared targets and probes common paths, reporting not found only when the found list is empty after all candidates are checked.