LOCRA - how it works

LOCRA is a free tool that reads a public XML sitemap and then visits every URL in it, live, one by one.

You get a clear PASS or FAIL for each URL, using the same rules every time. No Search Console login, no crawl budget, no setup - just a public sitemap URL.

• Status: what the live page actually returns (200, 404, 410, 5xx).
• Redirects: whether the URL in the sitemap is the URL you end up on.
• Host: whether the final URL is still on the same site.
• Robots: whether the page is set to noindex, in the page or in the response headers.
• Canonical: whether the page points to itself as the canonical URL.

PASS means all of this is true:

• The final URL returns 200.
• The page is not set to noindex.
• The page's canonical points to that same final URL.

FAIL is always labelled with one reason, so you know what to do next:

• 404 / 410 / 5xx - the page is gone or broken.
• 200 + noindex - the page loads but is told not to be indexed.
• Redirected - the sitemap URL is not the final URL.
• Wrong host - the final URL sits on a different domain.
• Fetch error - the page could not be reached in time.

Same page, same rules, same result. No guessing.

1. 01Go to the tool and sign in with your email - you get a one-tap link, no password.
2. 02Paste a public sitemap URL, or press Sample input to try it.
3. 03Optionally add the URL count you expect, so you can compare.
4. 04Hit Run. Results stream in with a running total of PASS and FAIL.

A sitemap index (a sitemap of sitemaps) is not supported yet - paste one of the child sitemaps instead.

The point isn't the number. It's the list someone can act on.

• Filter to failures only, or to one reason at a time.
• Group by reason so each ticket has one job.
• Search a URL pattern to scope it to one section of the site.
• Tick the rows you want, then export CSV, or a plain text file of bad URLs - one per line.

Paste that list straight into your dev or content ticket. That's the whole idea: live check in, ticket out.

• It only uses public data: the sitemap and live HTTP requests.
• Big sitemaps are capped at 2,000 URLs per run.
• Every mode free to use after email sign-in.
• Removed pages still in the sitemap? Check what they really return with GONE.

LOCRA isn't a standalone tool - it's one mode inside the GSC Companion at /tools/seo. The same email magic-link opens every mode, so you can move from LOCRA to another check without signing in again.

If you want the wider picture first, read GSC Companion - how it works.