A sitemap extension that includes image URLs to help search engines discover and index images.
An image sitemap uses the `image` namespace extension to include image URLs within a standard XML sitemap. This helps search engines like Google discover images that might not be found through regular crawling, especially images loaded via JavaScript or CSS.
Each `<url>` entry can contain up to 1,000 `<image:image>` elements. The only required tag within each image entry is `<image:loc>` (the image URL), but you can also include `<image:title>`, `<image:caption>`, and `<image:license>`.
Image sitemaps are particularly valuable for e-commerce sites with many product images and photography/stock image sites.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"
xmlns:image="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-image/1.1">
<url>
<loc>https://example.com/products/widget</loc>
<image:image>
<image:loc>https://example.com/images/widget-front.jpg</image:loc>
<image:title>Widget - Front View</image:title>
</image:image>
</url>
</urlset>SitemapKit's API lets you discover, extract, and parse XML sitemaps from any domain. Get structured JSON data with all sitemap elements including Image Sitemap.