Count every URL across a sitemap or sitemap index, including gzipped files.
How to use the Sitemap link counter
- Enter a sitemap or index URL.
- Wait while child sitemaps are fetched.
- Compare the total with your indexed pages in Search Console.
Why count
A big gap between URLs in your sitemap and pages Google indexes points to thin, duplicate or blocked pages.
Reading the count
The big number is the total of url entries found. For a sitemap index it is the sum across children, and the table lists each child with its status and its own count, so you can see which section is largest. Up to 50 child sitemaps are read; if an index lists more, a note says so and the total covers only those read. A child with a non-200 status adds nothing to the total. You can enter a domain instead of a sitemap URL and we find the sitemap first.
Making sense of the gap
Compare the total with the "Indexed" count in Search Console's page indexing report. Some gap is normal, especially on large sites. Open the "why pages aren't indexed" list: "Crawled, currently not indexed" points to thin or near-duplicate pages, "Duplicate without user-selected canonical" to parameter or slash variants in the sitemap. If the count is much higher than the pages you think you have, the sitemap is probably listing tag pages, filters or old URLs.