Website Page Counter

Three sources, in order: (1) every Sitemap: directive in /robots.txt, (2) the standard /sitemap.xml path, (3) the /sitemap_index.xml path. We fetch each one, detect if it's a sitemap index (contains <sitemapindex>), and recursively follow every child <sitemap> entry. The final URL list is the union of all <loc> entries across every child sitemap, with duplicates removed. Most CMS platforms (WordPress, Shopify, Wix, Webflow) generate one of these automatically.

Almost never exactly, and that's actually useful. Our count = URLs declared in your sitemaps (what you told search engines to consider). Google's index count = URLs Google chose to actually index (which may be less — thin content, duplicates, noindex directives, crawl blocks — or more — pages Google discovered through links but weren't in your sitemap). The gap between the two numbers is one of the most useful things to investigate in a technical SEO audit. If sitemap count is 500 and indexed is 120, 380 URLs are being excluded — check Google Search Console's Pages report for why.

We can't count pages on a site with no sitemap — there's no authoritative list of URLs to read from. The tool will tell you so explicitly. The fix: most modern CMSes (WordPress via Yoast/RankMath, Shopify, Wix, Squarespace, Webflow) generate a sitemap automatically. If yours doesn't, install a sitemap plugin or generate one via a static-site generator plugin, then run the counter again. XML sitemaps are a foundational SEO best practice — they help search engines discover every page on your site, especially new ones that don't have inbound links yet.

Yes — the per-directory breakdown groups all discovered URLs by their top-level path (everything after the domain, up to the second slash). For example, /blog/, /blog/seo/, /products/, /docs/api/ would each get their own row with a count. The full deduplicated URL list is also shown below the breakdown, with a copy-to-clipboard button. For a 50,000-page e-commerce site, expect the per-directory view to surface categories you forgot you had — common finding during site audits.

Free, yes — 5 checks per hour per IP, no signup, no daily limit, no email gate. Privacy, mostly: the domain you enter and the fetched sitemaps pass through our Vercel serverless endpoint. We don't log request bodies, don't store the sitemap contents, and don't use them for training any AI model. The in-memory rate-limit counter is the only state kept, and it resets on cold start. If you want to verify, open DevTools → Network while using it: only one POST to /api/website-page-counter/count leaves your browser, returning the structured breakdown.