Sitemap Frequency Analyzer

No. Google has said it ignores the changefreq and priority values in sitemaps. It does use lastmod, but only when the dates are consistently accurate. Other search engines may still read changefreq and priority, so it's worth keeping them valid if you include them.

The sitemap protocol allows always, hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, yearly and never, in lowercase. Anything else is invalid. The value is a hint about how often the page is likely to change, not a command.

Priority is a number from 0.0 to 1.0 that says how important a URL is compared with other URLs on the same site. The default is 0.5. It doesn't compare your pages with other sites, so setting everything to 1.0 tells search engines nothing.

The tool flags URLs whose changefreq says they change often but whose lastmod is much older: more than 90 days for always, hourly and daily, 180 days for weekly and 365 days for monthly. It also flags URLs marked never that changed in the last 30 days, a priority of 1.0 on most URLs, and a home page with a lower priority than other pages.

If you only care about Google, they add file size without any benefit, so removing them is fine. Leaving them in does no harm as long as the values are valid. Either way, spend the effort on accurate lastmod dates.

Yes. It's free and needs no sign-up. Uploaded and pasted sitemaps are processed in your browser, and URLs are fetched through our server only because browsers can't read other sites directly.