Sitemap
A sitemap is a file in XML format that allows webmasters to inform search engines about URLs on a website that are available for web crawling.
According to our data, Sitemap is present on 0.4% of all websites.
- 🏠 Website
📊 Rankings and Market Share
- Standards
- Rank: 26
- Market share: 0.4%
🏆 Sitemap Awards
- 🔥 15th most popular in Slovenia in the Standards category.
- 🔥 15th most popular in Azerbaijan in the Standards category.
- 🔥 18th most popular in Taiwan in the Standards category.
- 🔥 19th most popular in Japan in the Standards category.
- 🔥 19th most popular in Iran in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 21st most popular in New Zealand in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 22nd most popular in Poland in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 22nd most popular in Saudi Arabia in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 23rd most popular in Brazil in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 23rd most popular in China in the Standards category.
⚡ Sites Using Sitemap
We have data on 12,754 websites that use Sitemap. Here is a list of some of the top ranked ones.
The highest rated site using Sitemap is 
fastly.com.
| # | Website | Rank | Country | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fastly.com |
#94 | United States | American English |
| 2 | #836 | English | ||
| 3 | #903 | English | ||
| 4 | #956 | India | English | |
| 5 | #965 | English | ||
| 6 | #966 | English | ||
| 7 |  livechat.com |
#1,023 | United States | American English |
| 8 | #1,244 | United States | English | |
| 9 | #1,474 | Switzerland | English | |
| 10 | #1,679 | English | ||
| 11 | #1,758 | Japan | Japanese | |
| 12 | #1,854 | United States | English | |
| 13 |  developers.cloudflare.com |
United States | English | |
| 14 | #2,891 | Iran | Persian | |
| 15 | #2,916 | English | ||
| 16 | #3,574 | English | ||
| 17 | #3,781 | United States | English | |
| 18 | #3,942 | English | ||
| 19 | #3,972 | Canada | English | |
| 20 | #4,085 | American English |
📈 Usage Statistics
Most of the sites that use Sitemap:
- are located in the United States
- have content in English
- use the .com domain extension
- fall into the Business category.
Most of the sites using Sitemap are from the United States, Japan, and Germany.
- United States 18%
- Japan 7.7%
- Germany 6.7%
- United Kingdom 6.7%
- France 3.7%
- Netherlands 3.5%
- Poland 3.4%
- Brazil 3.3%
- Australia 3.3%
- Other 43.7%
Most Sitemap users speak English, Japanese, or German.
- English 56%
- Japanese 6.2%
- German 5%
- Spanish 3.4%
- French 3%
- Portuguese 3%
- Chinese 2.4%
- Polish 2.4%
- Dutch 2.2%
- Other 16.4%
Sitemap is especially popular on .com top-level domains.
- .com 43.8%
- .org 4.4%
- .net 3.8%
- .de 3.3%
- .co.uk 2%
- .com.au 1.9%
- .ru 1.8%
- .io 1.7%
- .pl 1.7%
- Other 35.6%
The primary market segments for websites utilizing Sitemap include business, marketing and merchandising, and Internet services.
- Business 18.6%
- Marketing/Merchandising 8.9%
- Internet Services 7.3%
- Online Shopping 6.3%
- Blogs/Wiki 5.7%
- Sports 5.6%
- Education/Reference 5%
- Software/Hardware 4.4%
- Entertainment 4.1%
- Other 34.1%
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Which country uses Sitemap the most?
The majority of Sitemap users are from the United States.
Who uses Sitemap?
According to our data, Sitemap is used on thousands of sites, including such established ones as fastly.com, livechat.com, and texas.gov.
Is Sitemap used on government websites?
Yes, for example, it is used by texas.gov and
healthcare.gov. In total, we found Sitemap on 13 government sites in the United States.
Do academic institutions use Sitemap?
Yes. Overall, we know of 26 academic websites in the United States that use Sitemap.
How does Sitemap stack up against the competition?
Sitemap is a moderately popular standard, ranking ahead of 28 other standards we track.
What are the alternatives to Sitemap?
Alternatives and possible competitors to Sitemap may include Humans.txt,
LLMs.txt, and
OpenSearch.