Fast Sitemap Maker

Keeping a website up and running is definitely not an easy thing, with network and website administrators having to perform tedious tasks. It all becomes less complicated, given the right application, and Fast Sitemap Maker is the program which lets you crawl entire websites to detect functional and broken links, generate reports, save sitemaps, and more.

It takes little time to deploy on your computer, and you can see what it’s all about right afterwards. Note, however, that your computer needs to be fitted with .NET framework for everything to go as planned, but there’s a high chance it’s already there, since modern Windows iterations offer it with the default set of features.

As far as the visual design is concerned, it sports a clean layout, with most of the interface space representing the list where all URLs get displayed, and an upper toolbar to handle most detection and search parameters. Most of your effort narrows down to specifying tags and providing the target URL.

What the application actually does is to crawl the target website in order to detect all links, including broken ones. Items are displayed as detected in the results sheet, which is fitted with column headers for URL, page title, type, status, reason, redirect URL, last modified data, change frequency, and priority.

On the bright side of things, column headers also act like filters, making it possible to easily find items of interest. However, before starting the scan, it’s possible to apply some tags, such as last modified date, change frequency, priority, and an option to apply all changes to the selected rows.

Additional settings can be managed from the dedicated panel. Here, you can choose the stream speed, HTTP version, user agent, and a few more. When done, you can save a report under the CSV format, and even load an existing one for inspection. Needless to say that the entire sitemap can be saved as well, as Google XML sitemap, HTML with URL or title in link, or the list of URLs in a text file.

Taking everything into consideration, we can state that Fast Sitemap Maker is a reliable application which allows you to crawl entire websites, with support for multiple instance to broaden your possibilities, and various tags to narrow down results. Reports can be generated and sitemap files saved as HTML, TXT, or XML.