About Sitemap Generator
Sitemap Generator is a high-performance web utility built to generate a valid XML sitemap from your list of URLs. Export and upload to Google Search Console to improve crawl coverage and indexing speed. Free and browser-based instantly and securely. Because it is designed with a local-first architecture, all processing occurs directly in your browser's memory using client-side JavaScript. This ensures that your files, code, or private text inputs are never uploaded to any external server or tracked by third-party analytics.
Whether you are formatting source code, cleaning text files, converting file structures, or running diagnostics, running these processes locally in your browser memory sandbox eliminates network latency and protects your data privacy.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
How many URLs can a single sitemap file contain?
A single XML sitemap file is limited to 50,000 URLs or 50MB uncompressed, whichever comes first. If your site exceeds this, split URLs across multiple sitemap files and create a sitemap index file that lists all individual sitemap files.
Do I need to include every page in my sitemap?
Include only canonical, indexable pages. Exclude duplicate pages, pages with noindex meta tags, parameter-based URLs that produce the same content as another URL, login-required pages, and low-quality pages you do not want indexed. A smaller, high-quality sitemap is better than an exhaustive list of all URLs.
What is changefreq and priority in a sitemap?
changefreq is a hint to crawlers about how often the page content changes (daily, weekly, monthly, yearly). priority is a value from 0.0 to 1.0 indicating the page's importance relative to other pages on your site. Both are advisory only — search engines like Google may or may not use them. Most SEOs set priority between 0.5 and 1.0 for important pages and leave changefreq at monthly.
How do I submit my sitemap to Google?
Upload your sitemap.xml file to your website's root directory (e.g., https://example.com/sitemap.xml). Then reference it in your robots.txt file with the line: Sitemap: https://example.com/sitemap.xml. Finally, submit the URL in Google Search Console under Sitemaps to request immediate discovery.
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