Difference between XML Sitemap & HTML Sitemap?

[shoppingswag]

Difference between XML Sitemap & HTML Sitemap?

[RH-Calvin]

HTML sitemap is a plain text sitemap used by browsers to know and surf through your website pages. XML sitemap is a coded sitemap used to submit in webmaster tool to help spiders crawl them and index the webpages in search engines.

[ryanwuk]

Difference between XML Sitemap & HTML Sitemap?

HTML Sitemap

1. HTML sitemaps are designed for humans to navigate the website.
2. HTML sitemap is User friendly.
3. HTML sitemap contains all formatted text files and linking tags of any website.

XML Sitemap

1. XML Sitemaps are designed for search engines to know the site structure.
2. XML sitemap is robots friendly.
3. XML is primarily created to facilitate the functionality of the search engines.

[Akshay_M]

The main difference between the two versions are that HTML sitemaps are easily read and understood by users while XML sitemaps are created for search engines. An XML sitemap is a file intended to be read by search engine robots. This file includes a lot of behind the scenes activity of a webpage.