Sitemap Generator — Create XML Sitemaps Free
Create a valid XML sitemap for your website with priority and change frequency settings. No sign-up required.
How to sitemap generator
- 1Add URLs one by one or paste multiple URLs in bulk (one per line)
- 2Set the priority and change frequency for each URL
- 3Preview the generated XML sitemap
- 4Copy the XML or download it as sitemap.xml
- 5Upload the file to your website's root directory
About This Tool
An XML sitemap is a file that lists the important pages of your website, helping search engines like Google discover and crawl them efficiently. Submitting a sitemap to search engines ensures that new and updated content is found quickly, which can improve your site's visibility in search results.
This sitemap generator lets you build a valid XML sitemap by adding URLs with optional priority and change frequency settings. Priority tells search engines which pages you consider most important (on a scale from 0.0 to 1.0), and change frequency indicates how often the content is likely to change. While search engines treat these as hints rather than strict directives, a well-structured sitemap improves crawl efficiency.
Everything is processed locally in your browser. No URLs or data are sent to any external server, so this tool is safe to use for sites under development or behind authentication.
Frequently Asked Questions
You can submit your sitemap through Google Search Console by going to the Sitemaps section and entering the URL where your sitemap.xml is hosted. You can also reference it in your robots.txt file using the Sitemap directive.
Priority is a relative value between 0.0 and 1.0 that indicates how important a page is compared to other pages on your site. Your homepage might be 1.0, main category pages 0.8, and individual articles 0.6. The default of 0.5 is a reasonable middle ground.
The changefreq element tells search engines how frequently the content at a URL is likely to change. Options range from 'always' for constantly updated content to 'never' for archived pages. Search engines use this as a hint, not a guarantee.
The sitemap protocol allows up to 50,000 URLs per sitemap file, and the file size must not exceed 50 MB when uncompressed. If your site has more URLs, you can split them across multiple sitemaps and reference them from a sitemap index file.
Place the sitemap.xml file in the root directory of your website so it is accessible at https://yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml. You can also place it elsewhere, but you must submit the full URL to search engines.