Sitemap.xml Generator

A sitemap.xml is a list of the pages on a site that you want search engines to know about, with an optional date each was last changed. Search engines discover pages through links too, so a sitemap is not required, but it makes the set of pages explicit and is the file the audit's rule S4 looks for, at the URL named in robots.txt or at /sitemap.xml.

This generator uses the same crawler as the audit. Starting from the homepage it reads robots.txt, then follows internal links breadth-first: at most 60 pages, one request per second, no redirects to other domains, no paths robots.txt disallows for EchoRankBot. The crawl runs as a background job and usually takes one to two minutes; the result page lists every page that answered 200 with HTML, the Last-Modified date when the server sent one, and a download button for the sitemap.xml. Only the URLs are stored, for seven days, so you can come back to the result; page bodies are never kept.

Sixty pages is a sample, not a limit on your site. If the crawl reports that more pages were discovered than fetched, use the result as a starting point and add the remaining URLs from your CMS, or let the CMS generate the sitemap itself, which most platforms can do. Upload the file to the root of the site, add a Sitemap line to robots.txt with the Robots.txt Generator, and run the free score: S4 will read the live file and count its URLs.