Generating a Visual Site Map of an Existing Site [closed]

Answer 1

It's not free, but Visio has a web site map diagram type that will go spider a site and generate a nice pretty diagram of the results.

Answer 2

This is an open-source project that I worked on to handle this exact situation with my clients.

Answer 3

Here's a solution that suggests using either XML Sitemaps or Google Sitemap Generator along with AppleScript and OmniGraffle.

Answer 4

update time. Both Visio & OmniGraffle w/ sitemap are good solutions. In the end, the client found that those applications by themselves produced too much granular information to be useful. For example, if a site has 30 product pages, each with their own overview, specifications, and documents sections the tree gets very big indeed. I solved for this by taking the sitemap and scrubbing it in Excel first to eliminate redundancies, and then generating the sitemap. A bit time-consuming but worth it in the end.

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Answer 5

the only good tool i found is powermapper. It allows you to hide irrelevant portinons from your visual sitemap, and provides quite a few templates.

Answer 6

In order to visualize site map as a flowchart, you can use Site Visualizer software. It has 30-days full-featured trial period, so you can create visual map of any existing website absolutely for free.

After installation, create new project, type website URL you need to crawl, then lick Start tool button. After the crawling will be done, click Draw button on the Visual Sitemap tab. When the visualization will be drawn, you can highlight links of any page by clicking on its rectangle. Outboind links with rel="nofollow" attribute draws with dotted line:

Click on Save button in order to save the visual sitemap to an image file: PNG, JPG, BMP, etc. More info you can find at the Quick Start Guide.