Blocked or private site? Paste the sitemap XML or a URL list
How to use
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Enter a site or sitemap URL
Type a domain such as example.com or a direct sitemap.xml link and click Load sitemap. For a blocked or private site, open the paste box and click Visualize pasted list instead.
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Explore tree, diagram and stats
The Tree tab opens two levels with URL counts and Expand all. Diagram draws 1 to 4 levels as boxes. Stats shows depth, top sections and lastmod dates. The Filter box narrows every view.
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Export what you need
Download the diagram as SVG or PNG, copy the tree as text or Markdown, or click Export CSV for the URLs shown, with path, depth, top folder and lastmod columns.
Why Sitemap Visualizer
- Finds the sitemap through robots.txt, common paths, redirects and the Wayback Machine.
- Folder tree with URL counts, and a diagram you can save as SVG or PNG.
- Depth, largest sections and lastmod summaries for SEO checks.
- Filter, then export CSV, a text tree or Markdown.
Reading a sitemap tree for SEO
A sitemap lists the URLs a site wants search engines to find. Seen as a tree, it shows where the site's weight really sits and where things have gone wrong. Here is what to look for when you load a site for the first time.
- Folder size: the URL counts and the Largest sections list show which sections dominate. If tag, archive or filter pages outnumber real articles or products, the sitemap may be listing pages you do not want indexed.
- Depth: the URLs by depth chart shows how deep the site goes. Pages four or more folders down are often hard to reach from the menu as well.
- Freshness: lastmod counts show whether a section is maintained. A big folder with nothing updated in 12 months is worth a content review.
- Duplicate patterns: two folders doing one job, such as /product/ and /products/, often point to an old migration that left URLs behind.
- Missing sections: if a key part of the site has no branch at all, those pages are not in the sitemap and rely on links alone to be found.
Common questions
How do I visualize the XML sitemap of a site I don't own?
Sitemaps are public files, so enter the domain and the tool looks for the sitemap itself. That makes it useful for studying how a competitor organizes content, not only for auditing your own site.
How does the sitemap visualizer find a site's sitemap?
It follows redirects, reads the Sitemap lines in robots.txt, tries common paths such as /sitemap.xml and /sitemap_index.xml, and opens any nested sitemap indexes it finds. If the live site blocks us or has no sitemap, it checks the Wayback Machine for an archived copy and tells you when it used one.
Can I turn a sitemap into a visual diagram?
Yes. Open the Diagram tab to see the site as boxes, left to right, with the URL count on each box. Choose 1 to 4 levels and how many items per folder to show; smaller folders fold into a +N more box. Download SVG or Download PNG saves the picture for a deck or a brief.
Does the sitemap visualizer show lastmod dates?
Yes, when the sitemap has them. The Stats tab counts URLs updated in the last 30 days and 12 months, older ones and ones with no date, and shows the newest and oldest date. Dates are read from up to 10 sitemap files, and the CSV export adds a lastmod column.
Does the sitemap visualizer handle sitemap index files?
Yes. When you load a site or an index URL, the tool opens each child sitemap and merges their page URLs into one tree. Pasted index XML is different: it only contains links to the child sitemaps, so paste each child file instead.
Is there a limit on how many URLs the sitemap tree shows?
Sitemaps loaded from a URL stop at 5,000 URLs, and the tool tells you when that limit is reached. Pasted lists have no fixed limit beyond what your browser can handle. The diagram draws about 1,200 boxes at most and folds the rest.
Why would a sitemap fail to load in the visualizer?
Some sites sit behind a firewall that blocks automated requests, and the tool names the firewall when it can. Other sites have no sitemap anywhere it can find. In both cases you can open the sitemap in your own browser, copy it, and paste it into the tool.
What does the number next to each folder in the sitemap tree mean?
It is the total number of URLs at or below that folder, so a /blog badge counts every post inside it. The top of the tree shows the total for the whole sitemap or for your current filter.
Can I export the sitemap tree to CSV or Excel?
Yes. Export CSV saves the URLs currently shown with their path, depth, top-level folder and lastmod date, and the file opens in Excel or Google Sheets. Copy text tree and Copy Markdown give you an indented outline for tickets and docs.
Can the sitemap visualizer help me find orphan sections?
It shows the candidates. A large folder that never appears in the site's menus, or a lone deep branch, stands out quickly in the tree and the diagram. Confirm by checking whether internal links actually reach those pages, since a sitemap only proves the URLs exist.