Sitemap Explorer: Read XML sitemaps and extract URL lists.

1. Discover sitemaps

Open the website whose sitemaps you want to analyze, start SEOMURAI and switch to Links → Sitemap Explorer. Click “Search for Sitemaps”. SEOMURAI reads the sitemaps listed in the robots.txt and also checks common paths such as /sitemap.xml and /sitemap_index.xml.

2. Select and load sitemaps

The sitemaps found appear as a tree: sitemap indexes with their child sitemaps and the approximate number of URLs in each. Make your choice with “Select All” or “Select None” and click “Load Selected”. SEOMURAI reads the <loc> entries along with lastmod, change frequency and priority, and “Step 3: Analyze URLs” shows the number of URLs, the URL groups and the oldest and newest change.

Validation runs while each sitemap loads. Every entry in the sitemap tree receives a badge that shows whether the sitemap is valid or how many errors and notices were found, and you can expand the issue details behind each badge. A malformed single sitemap no longer aborts the whole load, so the remaining sitemaps of an index are still read.

3. Start the status check

Under “HTTP Status Check (Batch)”, pick one of three modes: “Check All URLs”, “Sample 10%” or “Priority ≥ 0.8 Only”. Set the number of concurrent requests (5 to 50) and the timeout per URL (5 to 30 seconds), then start the check with the button below. SEOMURAI requests every URL with a HEAD request and follows redirects. If you check more than 100 URLs in “Check All URLs” mode, SEOMURAI asks for confirmation first, because the run can take a while and put load on the target server.

4. Evaluate the results

After the check, SEOMURAI shows four figures: Success (2xx), Redirects (3xx), Errors (4xx/5xx) and Total Checked. Below them, the URLs are grouped by status code; each group lists the first five URLs and expands to show the rest.

5. Export URLs and results

“Export URLs” saves the loaded URL list as CSV or JSON; the CSV columns are URL, Letzte Änderung, Priorität and Änderungshäufigkeit (last modified, priority and change frequency, labeled in German in every interface language). After a status check, a second export below the results saves them as CSV or JSON with the columns URL, HTTP Status, Status Text, Redirected and Final URL.