Where is the sitemap on WordPress, Shopify, Wix, or Squarespace?

WordPress has created a sitemap at /wp-sitemap.xml since version 5.5. If you use the Yoast SEO or Rank Math plugin, look at /sitemap_index.xml instead. Shopify, Wix, Squarespace, and Blogger automatically generate a sitemap at /sitemap.xml.

Do all websites have a sitemap?

No. Most website builders create one automatically, but custom-built sites often have none. Google’s guidance says sitemaps help most on large sites, new sites with few links from other sites, and sites whose pages aren’t well linked to each other.

How do I open a sitemap file?

Paste the sitemap URL into your browser, and it opens as plain XML. A file ending in .xml.gz is compressed, so the browser downloads it instead: unzip it and open the .xml file in a text editor. Each page URL is enclosed in a tag.

What if the finder doesn’t find a sitemap?

The site may have no sitemap, or it may keep one at a custom address that robots.txt doesn’t list. Check the search log to see which locations were tried. If your site has no sitemap, create one using the XML Sitemap Generator and add its URL to robots.txt.

What is a sitemap index?

A sitemap index is a file that lists other sitemap files instead of pages. Large sites use one because a single sitemap can hold no more than 50,000 URLs or 50 MB. WordPress’s /wp-sitemap.xml is a sitemap index: it links to separate sitemaps for posts, pages, and categories.

Sitemap Finder

Visit any website and find all its sitemaps. The tool checks robots.txt and the common sitemap locations, then lists each file with its status and URL count.

Sitemaps found

Your sitemaps will appear here

Enter a domain, then click “Find Sitemaps”.

How to Find a Sitemap

Three steps to every sitemap on a site.

Step 1

Enter a Website

Enter a domain or any page URL from the site. The tool works at the main domain because sitemaps belong to the whole site, not to a single page.

Step 2

Let the Finder Search

The finder reads robots.txt, checks common sitemap locations, and lists every sitemap file it finds.

Step 3

Copy or Check the Results

Copy any sitemap URL, or click Check this sitemap to test its URLs for errors in the Sitemap Checker.

Overview

How Do You Find a Website’s Sitemap?

Start with the site’s robots.txt file at yoursite.com/robots.txt and look for a line that begins with “Sitemap:”. If there is none, try the common locations: /sitemap.xml, /sitemap_index.xml, and /wp-sitemap.xml. Some sites use a sitemap index, a file that lists other sitemap files instead of pages, so open each file it lists to reach the page URLs. A sitemap at a custom address that robots.txt doesn’t mention can’t be found this way.

Why Choose Nivon’s Sitemap Finder?

Every sitemap on a domain, found in seconds.

More Locations, Including .gz Files

The finder checks WordPress’s /wp-sitemap.xml and compressed .gz sitemaps, as well as the standard paths, and counts the URLs within the compressed files.