Sitemap XML Generators

June 28, 2025

XML Sitemap Generators Should Be Simple, But They're Not

Once upon a time, generating a sitemap was as easy as telling a bot to crawl your site and spit out a clean XML file. It is not rocket science. But like many things on the modern web, what should be straightforward has been buried beneath layers of paywalls, sign-ups, and arbitrary limits.

Most XML sitemap generator tools today do not just offer you a sitemap. They offer a "solution" wrapped in friction. Want to crawl your entire site? Sorry, that is going to require an account. Want to generate more than 50 URLs? That is a premium feature. Want the crawl depth to go past two layers? That will be a subscription, please.

The audacity of it all: take something as basic and essential as a sitemap and gate it behind marketing funnels. The problem is not just the inconvenience. It is that the internet is being rebuilt on the idea that tools must be monetized first and functional second. A sitemap is a utility, not a luxury.

KRR's XML Sitemap Generator

We got tired of it. So we built our own.

XML Sitemap Generator is exactly what it sounds like: a simple XML sitemap generator that crawls your site and gives you a usable sitemap. No accounts. No nonsense. No tracking. No sales pitch. No limit on how many times you can use it. Just a fast, clean tool that does one job and does it well. (1)

Use it for personal sites, small business sites, client work, or anything else that needs to show up properly in search engines. It respects your time, your privacy, and your intelligence.

But Please, Do Not Abuse It

We built this tool for real people doing real work. If you try to hammer it with automated bulk crawlers or hook it into a botnet, do not be surprised when your access disappears. Respect the tool, and it will keep serving the community.

Tools Should Do the Job, Not Gatekeep It

Sitemaps are a technical requirement, not a marketing opportunity. The idea that something so basic should be bundled into a "platform" experience is frustrating. If your tool requires an onboarding sequence, upsells, or a monthly invoice just to do what a line of shell script can handle, you are not solving a problem—you are creating one.

We believe the web should have more clean, honest, and fast tools. So we made one. https://krr.org/smxml/index.html. Bookmark it. Use it. Share it with people who do not want to waste time.

Because getting found online should not start with jumping through hoops.

(1) Ironically, all of our web pages do have analytics, but the products of this tool do not.