XML Sitemap Generator

What is an XML sitemap.

An XML sitemap is a structured file that lists the pages on your website you want search engines to know about. Each entry holds the page’s URL and, optionally, when it last changed, how often it tends to change and how important it is relative to your other pages. Search engines read the file as a crawling roadmap. It does not replace normal crawling through links; it supplements it, making sure nothing worth indexing gets missed.

You need one most when discovery is hard. New sites with few backlinks, large sites with thousands of pages, sites with weak internal linking, and sites whose content changes frequently all benefit measurably. A sitemap also gives you a diagnostic channel: submit it in Google Search Console and Google reports how many of the listed URLs are indexed and flags problems with the rest. That indexed-versus-submitted gap is one of the most useful numbers in technical SEO.

For a small, well-linked brochure site, a sitemap is less critical, but it costs nothing and never hurts. Every professional SEO setup includes one as standard, referenced from robots.txt and submitted to Search Console. If your CMS does not produce one, or produces one full of junk URLs, generating a clean file is a ten-minute fix with long-term value.

How an XML generator looks:

How the generator works.

The generator is a polite server-side crawler with strict rules. It fetches your robots.txt first and honours every disallow directive, then crawls same-host HTML pages only, at roughly one request per second, identifying itself with a named user agent so you can see it in your server logs. It skips nofollow links, canonicalises query-string duplicates, ignores non-200 responses and stops at a hard cap of 500 URLs per job.

Because a real crawl takes time, the work runs as a background job: you start it, a status endpoint reports progress every couple of seconds, and you can cancel whenever you like. When the crawl finishes, the tool builds a sitemaps.org-valid urlset, with lastmod dates taken from each page’s Last-Modified header where the server provides one, plus your chosen changefreq and priority defaults and optional image entries. The download link stays live for 24 hours, after which the file is purged.

One honest note: if your site runs WordPress or a similar CMS, you may already have a sitemap at /wp-sitemap.xml or via your SEO plugin. The tool checks and tells you, because a maintained CMS sitemap that updates itself automatically is usually the better long-term option. This generator is for everyone whose platform does not offer that.

Please Note:

1. This tool is provided for free as-is. A sitemap assists discovery; we make no guarantees about indexing, rankings or traffic resulting from its use.

2. Only run the generator on sites you own or are authorised to work on. The crawler honours robots.txt and rate limits itself, but responsibility for where you point it rests with you.

3. Crawls are capped at 100 URLs, depth-limited and throttled to roughly one request per second. Very large or slow sites may return a partial sitemap, which the results clearly flag.

4. Generated files and job data are deleted automatically after 24 hours. Download your sitemap promptly after the crawl completes.

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