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Visual Sitemap Builder

Design website sitemaps as visual tree diagrams with page types, URL slugs, and hierarchy levels.

Tested tool guide Tested browser tools Checked August 16, 2026

What Visual Sitemap Builder does, with a checked example

You plan the site structure page by page: each node gets a label, a URL slug, a page type (home, listing, detail, and similar roles), and a position under a parent. The tool draws the result as a branching tree where hierarchy level equals depth - home sits at level 0, its children at level 1, and so on - making parent-child relationships visible at a glance. The surprise for most users: this is a design tool, not an analyzer. It cannot inspect your site or its routes; every node is a page you entered, and the tree is only as complete as your input.

Worked example

A concrete input and expected output from the current implementation.

Input

Five pages added to the builder: / (home, no parent); /about (page, under /); /products (listing, under /); /products/app (product, under /products); /pricing (page, under /).

Expected output

A tree diagram arranged by level: Level 0: / (home). Level 1: /about (page), /products (listing), /pricing (page). Level 2: /products/app (product).

Hierarchy level is depth below the root. /products/app hangs under /products, which hangs under /, so it renders at level 2 while its parent renders at level 1. Page types appear as badges on each node.

How the result is produced

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Levels come from depth

Every page is a node with exactly one parent, which makes the structure a tree. The hierarchy level shown on a node is its distance from the root: home is level 0, pages attached to it are level 1, their children level 2, and so on. Because levels are derived from position rather than typed by hand, a page's level is its depth, and the diagram stays consistent by construction.

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What a node shows

Each node displays the page's label and its URL slug, and carries the page type you assigned. Types control the node's badge and color, so the tree communicates page roles at a glance - which entries are landing pages, which are listings, which are detail pages - without reading every slug. The whole diagram arranges nodes in branching columns beneath the home page.

Good uses

  • Planning a new site's information architecture before any pages are built, deciding what lives at each level.
  • Walking a client or teammate through a proposed structure in review, using the tree instead of a long list of routes.
  • Restructuring an existing site by sketching the target URL hierarchy first, so slugs and levels are agreed before redirects or renames.

Limits and checks

  • The diagram knows only what you entered. A branch with one node may mean 'not planned yet', not 'only one page'; the tool cannot discover pages you did not add.
  • Every node has exactly one parent, so a page reachable from several places (a login page linked from every section, for instance) must be drawn once, in one place.
  • Slugs are literal text: what you type is what renders. The tool does not verify a slug against a framework's routing or flag collisions, so the tree reflects intent, not the running site.

Common questions

Is this the same thing as an XML sitemap for SEO?

No. This tool produces a planning diagram of your site's structure; an XML sitemap is a machine-readable file that search engines fetch to discover URLs. The visual tree helps you decide the hierarchy, but it is not the XML file. If your site needs one, the CMS or static-site generator usually emits it from the same structure.

What page types are available?

The tool ships with a fixed set of page types and you assign one to each node; the exact list appears in the UI. Types are a visual convention - each one gets its own badge and color - so the point is grouping: pages of the same type read as the same kind of page across the tree. Pick the closest match for anything unusual.

References and verification

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