PowerMapper is a
web crawler
A Web crawler, sometimes called a spider or spiderbot and often shortened to crawler, is an Internet bot that systematically browses the World Wide Web and that is typically operated by search engines for the purpose of Web indexing (''web spid ...
that automatically creates a
site map
A sitemap is a list of pages of a web site within a domain.
There are three primary kinds of sitemap:
* Sitemaps used during the planning of a website by its designers.
* Human-visible listings, typically hierarchical, of the pages on a site.
* S ...
of a website using
thumbnails from each web page.
Map styles
A
site map
A sitemap is a list of pages of a web site within a domain.
There are three primary kinds of sitemap:
* Sitemaps used during the planning of a website by its designers.
* Human-visible listings, typically hierarchical, of the pages on a site.
* S ...
is a comprehensive list of pages within a website's
domain. It can serve three primary purposes: offering structured listings specifically designed for web crawlers such as
search engines
A search engine is a software system designed to carry out web searches. They search the World Wide Web in a systematic way for particular information specified in a textual web search query. The search results are generally presented in a ...
,
aiding designers during the website planning phase, and providing human-visible, typically hierarchical listings of site pages.
Site maps can be displayed in a number of different map styles. Some styles display thumbnails for each page, others use text-only presentation.
Map styles include:
* Electrum a simple thumbnail map style
* Electrum 2.0 a variation of the Electrum style that works better on larger sites
* Isometric a thumbnail map style using a pseudo-3D isometric projection
* Page Cloud a thumbnail map style with pages clustered into 3D clouds
* Skyscrapers an abstract representation of pages that looks like city blocks
* Thumb Tree a hierarchical thumbnail map style
* Table Map a plain text list of pages in a table
* Table of Contents a plain text list of pages
* Tree View an expanding table of contents
Site maps can also be exported in
XML
Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language and file format for storing, transmitting, and reconstructing arbitrary data. It defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format that is both human-readable and machine-readable ...
site maps format for use by the
Google
Google LLC () is an American Multinational corporation, multinational technology company focusing on Search Engine, search engine technology, online advertising, cloud computing, software, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, ar ...
,
Yahoo
Yahoo! (, styled yahoo''!'' in its logo) is an American web services provider. It is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California and operated by the namesake company Yahoo Inc., which is 90% owned by investment funds managed by Apollo Global Manage ...
and
MSN
MSN (meaning Microsoft Network) is a web portal and related collection of Internet services and apps for Windows and mobile devices, provided by Microsoft and launched on August 24, 1995, alongside the release of Windows 95.
The Microsoft Net ...
search engines.
See also
*
Site map
A sitemap is a list of pages of a web site within a domain.
There are three primary kinds of sitemap:
* Sitemaps used during the planning of a website by its designers.
* Human-visible listings, typically hierarchical, of the pages on a site.
* S ...
, a graphical representation of the architecture of a web site
*
Sitemaps
The Sitemaps protocol allows a webmaster to inform search engines about URLs on a website that are available for crawling. A Sitemap is an XML file that lists the URLs for a site. It allows webmasters to include additional information about ea ...
, a standard for URL inclusion in search engines
References
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