What is HTML Sitemap ?

[Saravanan28]

HTML sitemaps are designed for humans to navigate the website.

[John_cote]

An HTML sitemap is a list of links of your web site's navigation. It is a bulleted outline text version of the site navigation. Also, Site visitors can go to the Sitemap to locate a topic they are unable to find by searching the site or navigating over the site menus. This Sitemap can also be created in XML format and submitted to search engines so they can crawl the website in a more capable manner.

[spoorti1509]

Sitemap a kind of is map of website or a group of all web pages of a website

Again in that there are two types of sitemap

Sitemap For user - Whenever any user comes to your website and your website has number of pages then sitemap are useful for the user to find particular page using sitemap. This sitemap contain list of pages or links of your website and make easy for user.
Sitemap for Crawler - Whenever crawler like google comes to your website the sitemap are helpful to crawl your webpages for indexing
XML and HTML are the format of Sitemap for user and crawler

[Wiztechplc]

The HTML Sitemap is more like the ones you see in shopping malls, telling you where the Zara store is, so you can hop over there directly and not have to walk two miles hunting for it. This type of sitemap is meant for us mere mortals, unlike the XML, which only the Google gods can view!

[kanagaseo]

In my point of view sitemap.html is very important role in SEO.

-It is valuable for human visitors, as it allows them to find any page
within your site quickly.
-This is mainly convenient for larger websites where not every page is
easily accessible through a menu.

[andrewfetterly]

HTML sitemap is map of your site displayed in a user friendly format. It is designed for humans as they can clearly see it on the website as an extra web page and all the visitors of the website can make use of it for understanding the website.
Having an HTML sitemap makes the website user friendly, as a user can easily navigate the whole website without any problem. For example, if the user is not able to find a specific page on the website then he can make use of the HTML site map and easily access that page. This helps in improving SEO rankings as the every user visiting your website will be satisfied.