Sitemap
A sitemap is a specialized 
XML file that lists a website's URLs and helps search engines discover pages available for crawling and indexing.
It can contain metadata such as last modification dates, update frequency, and page priority, supports extensions for images, videos, news, and multilingual pages, and is typically referenced through the <link rel="sitemap"> 
HTML element or the robots.txt file.
From an SEO perspective, sitemaps help search engines crawl large, newly launched, weakly linked, or dynamically generated websites more efficiently, though they do not guarantee indexing or search rankings.
According to our data, Sitemap ranks 30th among the standards we track.
It is detected on 0.5% of all websites. *
It is especially popular in Poland, appearing on 0.7% of all websites in the country.
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developers.google.com📊 Rankings and Market Share
- Standards
- Rank: 30
- Market share: 0.5%
🏆 Sitemap Awards
- 🔥 17th most popular in Slovenia in the Standards category.
- 🔥 17th most popular in Azerbaijan in the Standards category.
- 🔥 20th most popular in Japan in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 21st most popular in Sweden in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 22nd most popular in China in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 22nd most popular in New Zealand in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 23rd most popular in Poland in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 23rd most popular in Iran in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 24th most popular in Taiwan in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 25th most popular in the Netherlands in the Standards category.
⚡ Sites Using Sitemap
We have data on 18,143 websites that use Sitemap. Here is a list of some of the top ranked ones.
The highest rated site using Sitemap is 
x.com.
| # | Website | Rank | Country | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | x.com |
#17 | United States | English |
| 2 |  fastly.com |
#142 | United States | English |
| 3 |  livechat.com |
#465 | United States | American English |
| 4 | #796 | United States | English | |
| 5 | #802 | English | ||
| 6 | #835 | Indonesia | Indonesian | |
| 7 | #918 | English | ||
| 8 | #929 | English | ||
| 9 | #1,420 | United States | English | |
| 10 | #1,473 | United States | English | |
| 11 | #1,520 | Indonesia | Malay | |
| 12 | #1,612 | English | ||
| 13 |  ghost.org |
#1,723 | Singapore | British English |
| 14 |  athenahealth.com |
#2,072 | United States | American English |
| 15 | #2,166 | English | ||
| 16 |  developers.cloudflare.com |
United States | English | |
| 17 | #2,468 | Spain | Spanish | |
| 18 | #2,588 | English | ||
| 19 | #2,700 | United States | English | |
| 20 | #2,788 | Germany | German |
📈 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 18.7%
- Japan 7.3%
- Germany 6.7%
- United Kingdom 6.5%
- Netherlands 3.9%
- France 3.7%
- Poland 3.3%
- Australia 3%
- Brazil 2.8%
- Other 44.1%
Most Sitemap users speak English, Japanese, or German.
- English 55.6%
- Japanese 5.9%
- German 5.6%
- French 3.5%
- Spanish 3.5%
- Dutch 2.7%
- Portuguese 2.6%
- Polish 2.3%
- Russian 2.3%
- Other 16%
Sitemap is especially popular on .com top-level domains.
- .com 43.2%
- .org 4.2%
- .net 3.6%
- .de 3.6%
- .nl 1.9%
- .co.uk 1.9%
- .io 1.8%
- .com.br 1.8%
- .ru 1.7%
- Other 36.3%
The primary market segments for websites utilizing Sitemap include business, marketing and merchandising, and Internet services.
- Business 18.9%
- Marketing/Merchandising 9.2%
- Internet Services 7.6%
- Online Shopping 5.9%
- Blogs/Wiki 5.8%
- Sports 5%
- Education/Reference 4.9%
- Software/Hardware 4.3%
- Entertainment 3.6%
- Other 34.8%
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💬 Frequently Asked Questions
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 x.com, fastly.com, and livechat.com.
Is Sitemap used on government websites?
Yes, for example, it is used by texas.gov and
healthcare.gov. In total, we found Sitemap on 16 government sites in the United States.
Do academic institutions use Sitemap?
Yes. Overall, we know of 32 academic websites in the United States that use Sitemap.
How does Sitemap compare to the competition?
Sitemap is a moderately popular standard, ranking ahead of 26 other standards we track.
What are the alternatives to Sitemap?
Alternatives and possible competitors to Sitemap may include Site Map Page, 
Humans.txt, and 
LLMs.txt.
🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 4,001,723 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.