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Shopify Sitemap Checker

Child sitemap counts plus a sample of URLs checked for 404s, redirects and noindex, exportable to CSV.

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How Shopify's sitemap is structured

Shopify generates sitemap.xml automatically as an index of child sitemaps: sitemap_products_1.xml, sitemap_collections_1.xml, sitemap_pages_1.xml, sitemap_blogs_1.xml, numbered as each fills up. You never upload or edit this file yourself.

This checker fetches sitemap.xml, lists every child file it finds, and opens a sample of them (limited to a handful of fetches per run) to count URLs and spot any child sitemap that's failing to load, which would hide those URLs from Google entirely.

Using the results

Submit sitemap.xml once in Google Search Console (left menu: Sitemaps); Shopify keeps the file updated automatically after that.

Download the CSV of sampled child sitemaps and their URL counts to sanity-check nothing's obviously missing, for example zero product URLs when you know you have products.

Questions people ask

Why does it only sample some child sitemaps?

To stay within the checker's fetch budget (about 6 requests per run). Large stores can have many child sitemaps; open the rest directly if you need exact counts for all of them.

My sitemap didn't load at all. Why?

Password-protected stores hide their sitemap entirely. Otherwise check Shopify's status page, or that no app or redirect rule is intercepting /sitemap.xml.

Does a bigger sitemap help SEO?

Not by itself. It's just a discovery aid for crawlers; what matters is that the URLs in it are real, indexable pages.

Should I submit the child sitemaps individually too?

No, submitting the top-level sitemap.xml is enough. Search Console follows the index down into every child sitemap automatically.

Related tools

Shopify Broken Link CheckerFinds 404s and redirect chains from a page's links, then builds a Shopify redirect CSV to fix them.Shopify Duplicate Schema CheckerLists every Product, Organization and Breadcrumb structured data block on a page, and which one to switch off.Shopify Customer Accounts Upgrade CheckerDetects whether a store is on legacy or new customer accounts, with the upgrade checklist and what breaks.Shopify Domain Connection CheckerEnter your domain to see which DNS record is stopping it connecting to Shopify, and get the exact records to fix it.

Want this builtinto your store?

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Emmanuel Asika

Shopify & WooCommerce developer, Dublin

I build and fix online stores: new builds, migrations, speed, SEO and the custom bits apps can't do.

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Last reviewed 30 September 2026.

Sources: Google Search Central: Build and submit a sitemap