Free Sitemap Checker
Crawl your website, compare internal discovery with your XML sitemap, uncover missing pages, weak internal links, crawl-depth problems and technical SEO issues — all in one structured report.
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Paste your domain or website URL below to explore your XML sitemap and internal site structure.
A good sitemap is not enough.
Your XML sitemap shows search engines which URLs you want them to discover. Your internal links reveal how your website is actually connected.
The SWS Site Structure Explorer compares both views to help you find missing sitemap pages, weak internal linking, excessive crawl depth, redirects, indexability conflicts and other technical SEO problems.
What can a site structure analysis tell you?
Use the report to understand how pages are discovered and where the architecture may need improvement.
Sitemap Coverage
Compare URLs listed in XML sitemaps with pages actually discovered through internal links.
Crawl Depth
Find how many link steps separate a page from the homepage and identify unnecessarily deep content.
Internal Linking
Identify pages receiving very few internal links and areas of the site that may be difficult to discover.
Indexability
Review HTTP status, noindex directives, redirects and canonical behavior across crawled pages.
Metadata Quality
Detect missing or duplicated titles, descriptions and other page-level SEO signals.
Exportable Data
Download page inventory and crawl data for additional SEO review, documentation or development work.
Sitemap vs. internal crawl
Comparing these two data sources can reveal issues that a basic sitemap checker cannot show.
What you declare
URLs that your website intentionally exposes through its detected sitemap files.
What users and crawlers can reach
Pages discovered by following internal HTML links starting from the homepage.
How to interpret common findings
A finding is a signal to investigate — not automatically proof that something is wrong.
Internal links or sitemap URLs returning errors can hurt navigation and waste crawl activity.
Fix the URL, restore the page or redirect it to a relevant replacement.
The sitemap lists the page, but the completed crawl did not discover it through internal links.
Confirm crawl coverage and inspect whether the page needs stronger internal linking.
The page is internally discoverable but was not present in the detected sitemap.
Decide whether the page should be indexed and included in the XML sitemap.
Important content several clicks from the homepage can be harder to discover.
Improve navigation, hub pages or contextual internal links.
Pages with very few internal links may appear isolated within the website architecture.
Add relevant contextual links from related pages where they genuinely help visitors.
What should you fix first?
Use the report as a priority system rather than trying to change every page at once.
Sitemap-only does not automatically mean orphan page
This free tool performs a bounded crawl. If the crawl reaches its page limit, some sitemap URLs may simply fall outside the scanned sample. JavaScript navigation and other discovery paths can also expose pages that a standard HTML crawl does not reach. Treat these URLs as candidates for investigation.
Sitemap & Site Structure FAQ
Quick answers about XML sitemaps, crawl depth, internal linking and website architecture.
What is an XML sitemap?
What is crawl depth?
What is an orphan page?
Should every page be included in an XML sitemap?
Why are internal links important?
Understand your site before changing it.
Run another crawl or ask SWS to investigate the technical problems found in your report.
