Sitemap URL counter
How many URLs, and which parts of the site they belong to.
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Sitemap XML
About this tool
A total is the least interesting thing about a sitemap. The useful number is the shape: forty thousand URLs under /tags and two hundred under /blog tells you where your crawl budget is going, and it is usually a surprise the first time anyone looks.
- The breakdown is by first path segment, which is nearly always how a site is actually organised.
- Unique URLs are counted separately from total entries. A gap between them means duplicates, which waste crawl budget on pages you have already declared.
- The percentage against 50,000 is the number to watch as a site grows — crossing it silently truncates the file for every crawler.
- A section far larger than the rest is usually generated pages: tags, filters or search results. Those are the first candidates for removal from the sitemap.
Questions
- How many URLs should a sitemap have?
- As many as you have pages worth indexing, up to 50,000 per file. The question worth asking is whether every URL in it deserves to be crawled.
- Should tag and filter pages be in my sitemap?
- Usually not. They are thin, near-duplicate, and they consume the crawl budget that would otherwise reach pages you care about.
- What does a duplicate URL in a sitemap do?
- Nothing harmful, but nothing useful either. It signals a generation bug worth finding, since the same bug usually produces duplicates elsewhere.