Question 1

How do I create a sitemap for my website?

Accepted Answer

Enter your website URL and click 'Start Crawling'. Our crawler automatically discovers up to 500 pages on your site (5,000 with a free account). Once complete, download your sitemap in XML, HTML, CSV, or JSON format.

Question 2

Is this sitemap generator really free?

Accepted Answer

Yes! Our sitemap generator is 100% free. Without an account, crawl up to 500 URLs. With a free account, get 5,000 URLs per crawl (10X more!), save up to 5 crawls, and crawl up to 50,000 URLs/month. No credit card required.

Question 3

How many URLs can I include in my sitemap?

Accepted Answer

Without an account, you can crawl up to 500 URLs per sitemap. With a free account, you can crawl up to 5,000 URLs per sitemap and up to 50,000 URLs per month total. This is plenty for most small to medium websites.

Question 4

What's the difference between discovering and generating a sitemap?

Accepted Answer

Discovery finds existing sitemaps on any website (useful for competitor research or finding your own sitemap). Generation creates a new sitemap.xml file by automatically crawling your website and discovering all URLs.

Question 5

Do I need to submit my sitemap to Google?

Accepted Answer

Yes, after generating your sitemap, you should submit it to Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools. This helps search engines discover and index your pages faster.

Question 6

Is my data private and secure?

Accepted Answer

Yes. We only extract URL links from pages you crawl. We do NOT store full page content or personal data from crawled sites. For logged-in users, saved crawls are stored securely and only accessible to you. We use encryption for all data transmission.

Question 7

Can you crawl JavaScript-based websites?

Accepted Answer

Yes! With a free account, you can enable JavaScript Rendering to crawl dynamic websites built with React, Vue, Angular, and other JavaScript frameworks. Our crawler uses a real browser to render pages, ensuring all dynamically-loaded content is discovered. Note that JS rendering is slower than standard crawling due to the additional processing required.

Question 8

Can I keep my sitemap automatically updated?

Accepted Answer

Yes. With a free account, save your site as a project and set it to re-crawl on a schedule — daily, weekly, every two weeks, or monthly. Each run happens automatically on our servers, regenerates your XML sitemap, llms.txt, and markdown files, and emails you when it finishes, so your sitemap stays current without manual re-crawls.

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