I Built A Free Sitemap Comparison Tool

While working with web design and digital marketing agencies, I found a common theme as we were redesigning websites and doing QA checks while getting ready to launch the new website. Whether the site was big or small, a crucial part of the QA check was to ensure that we had transferred over all of the pages from the old site. I often used Chat GPT to compare an old sitemap to a new sitemap, but I always wondered why there wasn't a tool that automatically showed discrepancies in the sitemaps.

If you've ever redesigned a website with several pages, especially when doing many redesigns per week or month, you know that at some point you may forget one or several of the pages. A big downside to making this mistake is that you may lose a page, hurt your SEO, and in some cases, you may lose the page content forever. I built this tool to remedy that use case so that you can be more confident that you've transferred over all of the necessary pages.

I plan on adding more features to this tool, such as a redirect exporter, which you can use to export a CSV of redirects and then import the discrepancies into your favorite website builder like WordPress, Duda, and Webflow to speed up the process of comparison.

This is a free XML sitemap comparison tool that helps visualize discrepancies between 2 sitemaps. Check it out at https://www.sitemapcompare.com.