A sitemap is an XML file that lists every page on your site you want search engines to know about. Without one, Google still crawls your site through links, but discovery is slower and less complete, especially for pages that aren't linked from your homepage.
Standard urlset XML per the sitemaps.org protocol. Each entry includes loc, lastmod, changefreq, and priority. The root URL gets priority 1.0; discovered child pages get 0.7. You can hand-edit either before uploading.
This is a free tool, so it crawls one level deep and stops at 30 URLs. For larger sites, run it against multiple section URLs and merge the output, or use a desktop tool like Screaming Frog. The XML schema is the same.
You submit a URL. The server fetches that page, parses its HTML, and follows every internal link one level deep. It returns up to 30 URLs from the same hostname, then formats them as a standard XML sitemap you can copy or download.
The tool reads only what's publicly available from the URLs you submit. Nothing is stored after the crawl finishes. We log only the hostname and URL count (for usage analytics), never the full URL or any content.
Free crawl budget. The server runs with a 15-second total time limit and 30-URL cap so the tool stays fast and free. For larger sites, run it against multiple section URLs (e.g., /blog, /tools, /pricing) and merge the XML manually, or use a desktop crawler like Screaming Frog.
No. The tool generates the XML; you submit it manually in Google Search Console under Indexing → Sitemaps. We don't have access to your Search Console account.
Common reasons: the page requires JavaScript to render its links (we don't run JS), the links use a non-standard format we don't parse, the URLs are blocked by robots.txt-style patterns, or the linked pages returned a 404/redirect. Click into any URL with a yellow or red status dot to see what your browser sees.
Sitemaps tell Google your pages exist. Distribution makes Google rank them and LLMs cite them. That's what we do.