Sitemap Generator is a free online tool that builds a standards-compliant XML sitemap for any website — enter your domain, either let the tool auto-discover your pages or paste your own URL list, set optional metadata like priority and change frequency, and download a sitemap.xml file ready to upload to your site root and submit to Google Search Console.
An XML sitemap is a structured index of every URL on a site that you want search engines to know about, formatted according to the sitemaps.org protocol that Google, Bing, and Yandex all support. It exists because crawlers discover pages primarily by following links, and that link-following process has real limits: pages several clicks deep from the homepage, pages with no internal links pointing to them at all, pages behind JavaScript-rendered navigation a crawler might not execute, and pages on a brand-new site with no external backlinks yet are all at risk of being missed or indexed slowly through crawling alone. A sitemap sidesteps that by handing the crawler a direct, complete list rather than making it find every URL by exploration.
This matters most in a handful of concrete situations: launching a new site with no existing search visibility, publishing a large batch of new content at once and wanting faster discovery than organic crawling would provide, running a large e-commerce catalog where category and product pages can be many links deep, or restructuring a site's URLs and needing search engines to pick up the new structure quickly. A sitemap does not guarantee indexing or ranking — Google is explicit that it is a discovery hint, not a promise — but it removes discovery as the bottleneck and gives you visibility into exactly which URLs you have told search engines about.
This generator can build your sitemap two ways. Point it at a domain and click Fetch Pages, and it will first check robots.txt for an existing Sitemap: directive, then try common sitemap paths, and if none exist, crawl your site's internal links directly (up to 200 pages) to assemble a URL list automatically. Or skip discovery entirely and paste your own list of paths if you already know exactly which URLs belong in the sitemap — useful for a curated subset rather than every page a crawl would find. Either way, output includes the required <loc> tag for every URL, plus optional <lastmod> and <changefreq> hints, and Google-recommended priority values assigned automatically (1.0 for the homepage, 0.8 for other pages) so the file is ready to use without manual editing.
Everything runs in your browser — crawling uses public CORS proxies to fetch page HTML client-side, and the final XML is assembled and downloaded locally with no data uploaded to any server other than the target site itself and the pages it links to.
Want to double-check the generated file is well-formed XML before uploading it? Format XML validates and indents it for a quick visual check.
