Does your site have a sitemap?
Paste your URL and we check your site root for a sitemap.xml - the file that hands search engines a map of your pages instead of making them guess. Free, no signup.
What we check
We check the standard root location of your site for a sitemap.xml file - the map that lists your pages so search engines can find and crawl them instead of discovering everything link by link. If there's no sitemap at the root, we flag it, because a new or recently-changed site is much slower to get fully indexed without one.
This checks the conventional spot, your site root (yoursite.com/sitemap.xml). It's a presence check, not a validation of what's inside - we confirm the file is there, not that every URL in it is correct. If your sitemap lives at a non-standard path, a root check won't see it.
Why it matters
A sitemap won't make or break a small site overnight, but its absence quietly slows everything down. Without one, search engines have to find your pages by following links, and anything not well-linked - a new landing page, a fresh blog post, a deep product page - can sit undiscovered for a long time. For a site that's actively adding pages, that's lost time in search.
It's the kind of low-level hygiene that's easy to skip and easy to forget you skipped. Most frameworks can generate one, but plenty of hand-built sites and custom setups never do. A quick check tells you whether you're handing search engines a map or making them crawl blind.
Questions
Where do you look for the sitemap?
At the standard root location, yoursite.com/sitemap.xml. That's where search engines and most tools expect it. If your sitemap is declared somewhere non-standard, a root check won't find it - but the root is the convention worth following.
Do you check what's inside the sitemap?
No. This is a presence check - we confirm a sitemap.xml exists at your root. We don't validate that every URL in it is correct, current, or returns a healthy status. It tells you the file is there, not that its contents are perfect.
Do I really need a sitemap?
It's not strictly required, but it helps - especially for newer sites or ones adding pages often, where you want new URLs found fast. For a small, well-linked site it matters less, but having one is cheap hygiene with no downside.
Is it really free?
Yes. Paste a URL and run it, no account needed. The same scan also runs all of CopyMosaic's other checks, and you can open the full report to see them.