Sitemap Generator

How to use the XML sitemap generator

Start by entering your website address in the “Website URL” field, for example https://example.com. Next, paste the list of paths you want included in the sitemap into the “URLs (one per line)” box, one path per line such as /, /about, /contact, /blog. Then choose a “Change Frequency” (how often the content updates: daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly) and a “Priority” value from 0.3 to 1.0 for the pages. Finally, click “Generate Sitemap” and the tool instantly builds a standards-compliant sitemap.xml file, automatically stamping each URL with today's date as the lastmod value. The result appears in the sitemap.xml preview box, where you can click “Copy” to copy the code or “Download” to save the file and upload it to your site's root folder.

When to use it and why sitemaps matter

An XML sitemap acts as a roadmap that tells Googlebot and other search engine crawlers exactly which pages exist on your site, helping them crawl and index your content faster and more completely. This tool is especially useful when you launch a new website, publish a batch of new posts or products, restructure your URLs, or manage a large site where some pages are hard to reach through internal links alone. Declaring a sitemap also communicates the relative priority and update frequency of each page, which helps search engines use their crawl budget more efficiently on larger sites.

Tips and best practices

Only list canonical, live URLs that return a 200 OK status; avoid including redirected pages, broken links, or URLs blocked by robots.txt, since these can confuse the indexing process.

• Homepage and key pages: set Priority to 0.8-1.0 with a daily or weekly Change Frequency.
• Rarely updated pages, such as terms or privacy policy: use Priority 0.3-0.5 with a monthly or yearly frequency.
• After downloading, upload sitemap.xml to your site's root directory and submit it via Google Search Console and robots.txt.

Free and secure by design

The entire sitemap generation process runs directly in your browser (client-side); the URLs you enter are never sent to or stored on VSM's servers, keeping your data completely private. The tool is completely free, with no usage limits and no account required.

Frequently asked questions

What is an XML sitemap? An XML sitemap is a file listing the important URLs on your website, helping search engines like Google discover and index your pages more efficiently.

Is there a limit on the number of URLs? There's no hard limit in the tool, but the Sitemaps.org protocol recommends splitting sitemaps with more than 50,000 URLs into multiple files.

What should I do after generating the sitemap? Download the sitemap.xml file, upload it to your site's root folder, then submit it via Google Search Console (Sitemaps section) or add a Sitemap line to your robots.txt.

Is my data stored anywhere? No, everything runs locally in your browser, so no data is ever sent to or saved on a server.