Website sitemap planner
Plan the pages of a new site as a tree and export it as a list or outline.
FreeRuns in your browserNo signupUpdated 2026-11-05
Nothing you type leaves your browser.
Pages
14
Top-level pages
7
Not counting the home page
Deepest level
2
Site tree
- Home/
- About/about
- └Team/about/team
- └Careers/about/careers
- Services/services
- └Website design/services/website-design
- └Search engine optimisation/services/search-engine-optimisation
- └Maintenance/services/maintenance
- Work/work
- └Example project/work/example-project
- Blog/blog
- Contact/contact
- Privacy policy/privacy-policy
- Terms/terms
Home / About /about Team /about/team Careers /about/careers Services /services Website design /services/website-design Search engine optimisation /services/search-engine-optimisation Maintenance /services/maintenance Work /work Example project /work/example-project Blog /blog Contact /contact Privacy policy /privacy-policy Terms /terms
About this tool
How it works and how to read the result.
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Website design & development
Company websites designed and built to win trust and enquiries.
See the serviceWhat it does
This website sitemap planner turns a simple indented list of pages into a site tree with a suggested URL for every page. Start from a template for a company website, online shop, restaurant, clinic or software product, or type your own list. Indent a page with two spaces to put it under the page above. The planner counts the pages, shows how deep the structure goes and warns about duplicate URLs, very deep pages and long top-level menus. You can export the plan as an indented outline with URLs, a Markdown list or a CSV for a spreadsheet. Nothing you type leaves your browser.
How to use it
- Pick the template closest to your business, or clear the box and start from scratch.
- Edit the list: one page per line, indented with two spaces under its parent.
- To set a URL yourself, add a vertical bar and the URL, for example "Book a table | /book".
- Check the tree and the warnings, and adjust until the structure reads well.
- Choose an export format and copy or download the plan.
How to read the result
The company website template has 14 pages, 7 of them at the top level apart from the home page, and goes 2 levels deep. Services has three pages under it, so "Website design" gets the URL /services/website-design. There are no warnings.
Switch to the online shop template and the structure goes 3 levels deep: Shop, then Women, then Dresses at /shop/women/dresses. That is fine for a shop, where categories are expected, but it is the limit. Add a fourth level and the planner warns that some pages are more than three clicks from the home page.
The top-level count includes footer pages such as privacy policy and terms. If the count goes above 8, the planner suggests grouping, but only count the pages you plan to put in the main menu.
Text in brackets is left out of URLs, so "Services (4 pages)" becomes /services. Use brackets for notes to your designer.
We plan site structure and URLs at the start of every project in website design and development. When you are ready to turn page names into URLs one by one, the URL slug generator helps.
Questions
Frequently asked.
Is this the same as an XML sitemap?
No. A planning sitemap is a map of the pages and how they are grouped, made before the site is built. An XML sitemap is a file that lists the live URLs for search engines. Plan the structure here first; once the site is live, use the XML sitemap generator for the file.
How deep should a site structure go?
For most business sites, two or three levels are enough: the home page, sections such as Services, and pages within each section. Deeper pages are harder for visitors to find and tend to get fewer internal links. The planner warns you when pages sit four or more levels deep.
How many items should go in the main menu?
Usually five to seven. More than that is hard to scan, especially on a phone. Group related pages under a section, and put pages such as privacy policy, terms and careers in the footer rather than the main menu.
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