An HTML sitemap is a human-facing web page — a browsable directory or table of contents that links to your site’s important pages, improving user navigation and adding internal links. An XML sitemap is a structured, machine-readable file (usually /sitemap.xml) that lists your URLs with optional metadata so search-engine crawlers can discover and index them; you submit it in Google Search Console. They serve different audiences and an HTML sitemap complements — but does not replace — your XML sitemap. This tool builds the HTML sitemap page from a URL list you paste.

The generator is 100% client-side, which is what keeps your data private — nothing is uploaded and no server is involved. But that also means the browser cannot crawl your site to discover URLs: browsers block scripts from fetching pages on other origins (the same-origin / CORS policy), and there is no server proxy to do it for you. So you paste the list of your important pages yourself — the easiest way is to export it from your CMS, your existing XML sitemap, or a site crawler, then drop the URLs in, one per line.

An HTML sitemap has no direct ranking factor, but it helps SEO indirectly. It improves user experience by making pages easy to find, and it adds internal links: linked from your footer, the sitemap page receives link equity from every page on your domain and passes it on to the pages it lists, which can help search engines discover and prioritise deeper pages and use crawl budget more efficiently. For best results, include your important pages (not every URL), group them into clear sections, style the page to match your site, and keep it alongside — not instead of — your XML sitemap.

Follow the same best practices SEOs recommend: mirror your site’s hierarchy, group related pages into clear sections with <h2> headings rather than dumping hundreds of links on one page, and include your most important pages rather than every URL. Use descriptive, human-readable link text, keep the layout scannable (columns help on wide screens), and update it when your site changes. This tool does the grouping automatically — it splits your URLs by their first path segment, derives readable titles from the last segment, and lets you override any link’s text.