Sitemaps in the wild
MDN Web Docs sitemap index
A small index pointing at one child sitemap per locale — the clearest example of splitting a sitemap by something other than size.
MDN splits its sitemap by locale rather than by volume, which is a legitimate and under-used reason to use an index. Each child is a self-contained sitemap for one language.
The whole index is under two kilobytes, so it is readable in full.
- Publisher
- Mozilla
- Host
developer.mozilla.org- Format
- Sitemap index
- Root when listed
- sitemapindex (2026-08-18)
- Size when listed
- 1.3 KB
What the last check saw
Fetched and parsed, 1.3 KB.Checked 2026-08-18 16:03 UTC
Structure
- Root element
sitemapindex- Detected as
- sitemapindex
- Nodes
- 31
- Namespaces
http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9
/sitemapindex×1/sitemapindex/sitemap×10/sitemapindex/sitemap/loc×10/sitemapindex/sitemap/lastmod×10
Recent checks
- ok2026-08-18 16:03 UTC
- ok2026-08-18 16:01 UTC
Where it reaches
- FormatsSitemap indexThe format, and the two children an index entry may carry.
- ToolsSitemap validatorFollows an index and checks the children it names.
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