SiteMapperPro

Visual sitemap generator

Turn any XML sitemap, or a quick crawl, into a line map of the site: every section a branch, every page a station, with counts and depths you can act on.

XML sitemap

No sitemap URL handy? Find it, or .

Two ways to read a site’s shape

An XML sitemap tells you what the site claims exists. A crawl tells you what a visitor or search engine can actually reach by following links. The map above uses the same line-diagram for both, so they are easy to compare.

  • URL hierarchy (sitemap mode). Branches are folders in the path. Big numbers on one branch show where the site’s weight sits; long thin branches show folder nesting nobody needs.
  • Click depth (crawl mode). Google’s guidance on site structure is to make important pages reachable through links from other pages, ideally without many hops from the homepage. The click-depth bars show how far each page really is.
  • Orphan candidates. After a crawl, compare against the sitemap. URLs in the sitemap that no crawled page links to have no internal path for users and rely on the sitemap alone for discovery.

For the reasoning behind flat versus deep structures, see the site architecture guide. To fix what you found, run the file through the sitemap checker, or keep a copy and compare it after your next release.

The rest of the toolkit

Sitemap checkerProtocol errors, lastmod problems, mixed hosts, duplicates, plus AI fix notes.Compare two sitemapsAdded, removed and re-dated URLs between two versions, by section.Sitemap finderWhere is it? robots.txt and common paths.URL extractorEvery URL to CSV, even from an index.Sitemap splitter50,000-URL parts plus an index file.CSV to sitemapA spreadsheet of URLs into valid XML.Robots.txt generatorGroups, rules and Sitemap lines.Robots.txt testerWhich rule wins for a URL, step by step.

Questions

What is a visual sitemap?

A visual sitemap is a diagram of a website’s pages arranged by hierarchy, so you can see sections, how deep they go and how many pages each holds. This tool draws it as a transit-style line map from an XML sitemap or from a small crawl of the site.

Should I map from the XML sitemap or from a crawl?

Use the XML sitemap to see the URL hierarchy of everything you have asked search engines to index. Use the crawl to see click depth: how many clicks from the homepage each page really is. Run both and the tool lists sitemap URLs the crawl never reached, which are orphan-page candidates.

How big a site can it map?

Sitemap mode runs in your browser and handles files up to the protocol limit of 50,000 URLs; for a sitemap index, pick a child sitemap to load. Crawl mode is a quick sample: up to 60 pages, three clicks deep and 20 seconds, and it obeys the site’s robots.txt.

Is URL depth the same as click depth?

No. URL depth counts folders in the path (/blog/2026/post is depth 3). Click depth counts links followed from the homepage. A page can have a short URL but be buried five clicks deep, and search engines care about the second more.

Can I export the map?

Yes. Download the tree as an indented outline (handy for planning documents) or every URL with its section and depth as CSV for a spreadsheet.