Sitemap Finder
Enter a domain. The tool reads robots.txt, tries the usual sitemap addresses and shows every sitemap it can reach.
Reads robots.txt and tries nine common sitemap locations.
How the finder works
There is no fixed address for a sitemap, so finding one takes two steps.
1. robots.txt
The tool downloads /robots.txt and collects every Sitemap: line. This is the official way for a site to announce its sitemaps, and a file may contain several of them. You can inspect the file itself with the robots.txt tester.
2. Common locations
Then it requests the paths that CMSs and plugins use by default:
/sitemap.xml,/sitemap_index.xmland/sitemap-index.xml/wp-sitemap.xml(WordPress core)/sitemap.xml.gz,/sitemaps.xmland/sitemap/sitemap.xml/sitemap.txt(plain text list)/feed(RSS feed, which Google also accepts as a sitemap)
A path only counts as found when it returns 200 and the content parses as a sitemap. Many sites answer unknown paths with a 200 HTML page, and the tool filters those soft 404s out. For each hit you see the type (URL set, index, text or feed) and the number of URLs or child sitemaps.
What to do with the result
Click Validate to run the file through the sitemap validator, or Extract URLs to get the page list from the sitemap URL extractor.
If this is your site and the sitemap was found only at a common path, add a line such as Sitemap: https://yoursite.com/sitemap.xml to robots.txt. The robots.txt generator writes it for you. If no sitemap exists, build one with the sitemap generator.
Once you know the address, TurboIndex can watch that sitemap and submit new pages to Google as they appear.
Questions and answers
Where is a sitemap usually located?
Most sites keep it at /sitemap.xml or /sitemap_index.xml in the root folder. WordPress core uses /wp-sitemap.xml, and SEO plugins such as Yoast and Rank Math use /sitemap_index.xml. The reliable source is the Sitemap: line in robots.txt, because a sitemap may live at any address.
The tool found nothing. Does the site have no sitemap?
Not necessarily. A sitemap can sit at a custom URL and be submitted only through Search Console, in which case outsiders cannot discover it. If it is your own site, check your CMS or SEO plugin settings for the sitemap address.
Does every website need a sitemap?
Google says small, well linked sites can do without one. A sitemap helps most when the site is large, new, has few external links or has pages that are not well linked internally. It costs little to have one, so most sites should.
Why should the sitemap be listed in robots.txt?
The Sitemap: directive lets any crawler find the file without a manual submission. That includes Bing, Yandex and other engines where you may never open a webmaster account.