Create Monitors from Your Sitemap

Instead of adding pages one by one, point LoadFocus at your sitemap and pick the pages you want to monitor. Each selected URL becomes its own performance monitor, sharing the location, device and schedule you choose.

Supported sitemap formats

• XML sitemaps: the standard sitemap.xml format used by most sites.
• Sitemap index files: if your sitemap links to other sitemaps, LoadFocus follows them and collects the page URLs.
• Gzipped sitemaps: compressed .xml.gz files work out of the box.
• Plain text lists: a simple text file with one URL per line.

Steps to import from a sitemap

1. Open the New Website Performance Monitor Configurator and click New Test.
2. Click Import from sitemap next to the URL field.
3. Paste your sitemap URL, for example https://example.com/sitemap.xml, and click Fetch sitemap.
4. The page URLs appear in a list. Type in the filter box to narrow it down, for example blog to see only blog pages. The counter shows how many URLs match.
5. Tick the pages you want, or click a URL to toggle it. Select visible picks everything currently shown, up to your plan limit.
6. Choose location, device and schedule as usual, then run or save. One monitor is created per selected URL, named after the page.

Good to know

• Pages you already monitor show a monitored badge and cannot be selected twice, so re-importing the same sitemap never creates duplicates.
• Each import is capped per plan, up to 30 URLs at a time on the largest plans. You can run several imports back to back if you need more.
• On free plans you can fetch a sitemap and preview its URLs, but importing requires a paid plan.
• Very large sitemaps are truncated to the first URLs. Use the filter to find specific sections.
• If your pages sit behind a login, combine the import with HTTP Authentication. The credentials apply to every monitor created in the batch.
• Set up alerts afterwards to get notified when any of the imported pages slows down.