About Sitemap Generator

Generate sitemap.xml from a list of URLs with priority and frequency. Part of the DevTools Surf developer suite. Browse more tools in the Web / Frontend collection.

Use Cases

• Generating sitemaps for a new website before submitting to Google Search Console
• Creating XML sitemaps for static sites without CMS plugins
• Updating sitemap priority values during an SEO audit
• Building sitemaps for multi-language sites with hreflang attributes

Tips

• Set higher priority values for your most important pages
• Use weekly or daily changefreq for frequently updated content
• Paste URLs one per line for bulk sitemap generation

Fun Facts

• The Sitemaps protocol was jointly adopted by Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft (Bing) in November 2006 as a shared standard at sitemaps.org.
• A single sitemap.xml file can contain at most 50,000 URLs and must not exceed 50 MB uncompressed, per the protocol specification.
• Google processes over 130 trillion pages but sitemaps still help by signaling which pages you consider most important for crawling.

FAQ

What format does it output?

sitemap.xml per Sitemaps 0.9 spec. Plus optional sitemap-index for multi-sitemap sites (>50,000 URLs or >50MB uncompressed).

What are priority and changefreq?

priority (0.0-1.0) hints relative importance. changefreq (daily, weekly, monthly) hints update cadence. Both are optional; Google barely uses them.

Do I need hreflang?

For internationalized sites, yes. The generator supports alternate-language URLs via xhtml:link elements. Helps search engines serve the right language version.

Where do I put it?

At your site root (/sitemap.xml) and reference it in robots.txt with `Sitemap: https://...`. Submit to Google Search Console for faster indexing.