Sitemap Generator
Crawl your website the way a search engine does — or paste a list of pages — and download a clean sitemap.xml with only indexable URLs, real last-modified dates and optional images.
At a glance
- Crawls a website from its home page, following links on the same host — up to 1,000 pages — or builds a sitemap from a pasted list, a CSV or an existing sitemap.
- Includes only indexable pages: it obeys robots.txt, and leaves out pages with noindex, a canonical pointing elsewhere, redirects and error statuses — listing each one with the reason.
- Adds lastmod from the page’s own date (article:modified_time, JSON-LD dateModified) or the server’s Last-Modified header, or a date you choose.
- Optionally adds images (Google image sitemap extension) and linked PDF files; changefreq and priority are optional because Google ignores them.
- Splits large sites into several files with a sitemap index at the protocol’s 50,000-URL / 50 MB limit, and also exports a plain-text list.
- Pages are fetched by your browser when the site allows it, otherwise through Jina Reader at about 18 pages a minute. Only page addresses are sent.
Step by step
How to create an XML sitemap
- 1
Enter your website
Type your home page address and choose how many pages to crawl, or switch to From a list of URLs.
- 2
Let it crawl
Pages are discovered through links; skipped pages are listed with the reason. You can stop at any time.
- 3
Choose the details
Pick where lastmod comes from and whether to add images; leave changefreq and priority out unless you need them.
- 4
Upload and submit
Download sitemap.xml, upload it to your site’s root, add it to robots.txt and submit it in Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools.
Features
Everything you need, nothing you don’t
Crawls like Google
Follows links, respects robots.txt and nofollow, and only keeps pages that can actually be indexed.
Clean by default
No duplicates, no redirects, no noindex pages and no tracking parameters — the mistakes Search Console reports.
Honest lastmod
Dates come from the pages themselves, so Google can trust them to spot updates.
Image sitemaps
Add each page’s images to help them appear in Google Images.
Any size
Sitemap index and numbered files are made automatically for very large sites.
From a list too
Paste URLs or open a CSV or old sitemap to clean it up and rebuild it.
What belongs in a sitemap
| Include | Leave out |
|---|---|
| Pages that return 200 and that you want in search results | Pages with noindex, or blocked in robots.txt |
| The canonical version of each page | Duplicates, ?ref= and other tracking variants |
| The final address after redirects | URLs that redirect or return 404 |
| Accurate lastmod dates | Dates that change on every build without a real update |
Do I need a sitemap?
Search engines find most pages by following links, but a sitemap helps them discover new and updated pages faster — especially on new sites with few backlinks, large sites, and pages that few other pages link to. Google reads loc and an accurate lastmod; it ignores changefreq and priority.
After uploading, list the sitemap in robots.txt (Sitemap: https://example.com/sitemap.xml) so every search engine finds it, and submit it once in Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools to see how many pages are indexed. Google no longer accepts sitemap “pings”; Bing and Yandex also support IndexNow for instant updates.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Is the sitemap generator free?
Why is the crawl slow for my site?
Why were some pages left out?
Should I set changefreq and priority?
How many URLs can one sitemap hold?
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