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Google announced that it is including some new information in
the Webmaster Tools sitemaps feature.

This includes details based on content-type, like stats from
Web, Videos, Images and News featured more prominently.

“This lets you see how many items of each type were submitted
(if any), and for some content types, we also show how many
items have been indexed,” explains^[1]
Webmaster Tools engineer Kamila Primke. “With these
enhancements, the new Sitemaps page replaces the Video Sitemaps
Labs feature, which will be retired.”

There is also now the ability to test a sitemap. “Unlike an
actual submission, testing does not submit your Sitemap to
Google as it only checks it for errors,” says Primke. “Testing
requires a live fetch by Googlebot and usually takes a few
seconds to complete. Note that the initial testing is not
exhaustive and may not detect all issues; for example, errors
that can only be identified once the URLs are downloaded are
not be caught by the test.”

Google also has a new way of displaying errors, which the
company says better exposes what types of issues a sitemap
contains. Rather than repeating the same kind of error numerous
times for one sitemap, Google will group errors and warnings,
giving a few examples.

For sitemap index files, Google aggregates errors and warnings
from the child sitemaps that the sitemap index encloses, so
users won’t have to click through each child one at a time.

The functionality of the delete button has changed as well. It
will now remove the sitemap from Webmaster Tools from both your
account and the accounts of the other owners of a site.

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