A free sitemap generator that crawls your site the way a search engine does, grades the sitemap you have, and writes a better one.
5.0(1 rating)Type your site to crawl it the way a search engine does. You get a new sitemap, plain or designed, and a check of the one you have.
A sitemap tells search engines which pages your site has, so they don't have to find each one through links.
This free sitemap generator crawls your site the way a search engine does, writes the sitemap for you, and checks the one you have.
Here's what a sitemap is, how to make one, the 2 looks you can pick, and how to put it live on your platform.
What is an XML sitemap?
An XML sitemap is a file at your site's root, usually /sitemap.xml, that lists the pages you want search engines to find.
Each entry is a page's address, and can add when it last changed, its images and its language versions.
Google says you might need one if your site is large, new with few links to it, or heavy on images and video. A small site that links every page well may not, but a sitemap never hurts.
How to make a sitemap
What the crawl does
The crawl starts from the sitemap you have (the one robots.txt names, or the usual addresses), then follows your links from the home page, up to 5 clicks deep.
It reads each page the way a crawler does, and leaves a page out when it shouldn't be in a sitemap:
- Not found – the page answers with an error.
- Redirects – the address sends visitors somewhere else, so the sitemap lists the new address.
- Noindex – the page asks search engines to skip it.
- Canonical elsewhere – the page names another address as the real one.
- Blocked in robots.txt – crawlers aren't allowed to read it.
Each page in the sitemap gets its newest date, up to 10 images and every language version it names.
What the report checks
The report grades the sitemap you have now, out of 100, in 3 parts: whether crawlers can find it, whether it lists only real pages, and whether it lists every page your links lead to.
Then it checks for dead internal links, pages without dates and pages more than 3 clicks from home. Each check that fails has a How to fix.
Plain or designed
Both give search engines the same XML. The difference is what a person sees if they open it.
The plain sitemap is the standard file, and shows as raw XML in a browser.
The designed sitemap adds a stylesheet, sitemap.xsl, so the same file opens as a page in your name, logo and color, with light and dark modes. It's drawn like the sitemap on my own site.
It also comes with sitemap.html, a sitemap page for people, grouped by section, with a search box.
Chrome stops drawing styled XML in Chrome 158, on November 17, 2026, and Firefox and Safari plan the same. The designed sitemap has an option that adds Chrome's suggested fix, so the look keeps working.
The page for people works everywhere either way.
Where your sitemap goes
On most sites, the files go in the top folder, beside your home page. Some platforms make the sitemap for you:
- WordPress – makes one at /wp-sitemap.xml, and SEO plugins swap in their own.
- Shopify, Squarespace and Wix – make and update /sitemap.xml themselves, so you submit theirs.
- Webflow – makes one, or takes a sitemap you paste into its SEO settings.
- Next.js – serves files from the public folder, or builds the sitemap from code.
The report has the steps for each, and a prompt for Claude Code or Codex that does it for you.
How to submit your sitemap
Add a line to robots.txt that names your sitemap. Every crawler that reads robots.txt then finds it.
Then submit it in Google Search Console, under Sitemaps, and in Bing Webmaster Tools. Both show how many of your pages they read, and which ones they couldn't.
Sitemap rules that matter
Google's own guide keeps it short:
- Size – 50,000 addresses or 50 MB per file. Past that, split it into an index and parts, which this generator does for you.
- Dates – Google uses lastmod only when it's accurate, so each date here comes from the page itself.
- Priority and change frequency – Google ignores both, so this generator leaves them out.
- Place – a sitemap at your site's root covers every page on the site.
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Sitemap Generator FAQs
Questions about sitemaps? Here's what to know.
A sitemap generator is a tool that finds the pages on a site and writes them into a sitemap file for search engines.
This one crawls your site like a search engine, checks the sitemap you have, and gives you a new one, plain or designed.
Google says you might need a sitemap if your site is large, new with few links to it, or has a lot of images and video.
A small site of about 500 pages or fewer that links every page well may not need one, but a sitemap never hurts.
A sitemap can list up to 50,000 addresses, or 50 MB before compression.
Past that, you split it into a sitemap index and parts, and this generator does that for you.
No, Google ignores priority and changefreq in sitemaps.
Google does use lastmod when it's accurate, so this generator takes each date from the page itself.
A page is left out when it shouldn't be in a sitemap: it doesn't answer, it redirects, it's marked noindex, it names another address as canonical, or robots.txt blocks it.
The report lists every left-out page with its reason.
No, search engines read the same XML either way and skip the stylesheet line.
The design only changes what a person sees when they open the file in a browser.
Chrome stops drawing styled XML in Chrome 158, on November 17, 2026.
The designed sitemap has an option that adds Chrome's suggested fix, and the sitemap page for people works in every browser.
Open Google Search Console, go to Sitemaps under Indexing, type your sitemap's address and press Submit.
Also add a Sitemap line to robots.txt, so every other crawler finds it too.
Yes, the sitemap generator is free, with no sign-up.
To keep it free for everyone, each person can run 5 crawls an hour, of up to 500 pages each.
I did. I'm Navid Moazzez, and I made the sitemap generator as one of my free tools on navid.me.
You can read more about me.
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Navid Moazzez helps creators and founders master AI and build their own AI Operating System (AI OS) to automate their business and life.
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