Different between HTML Sitemap and XML Sitemap ?

[Asmit Roy]

I submit the sitemap but after testing from the webmaster it shows that the sitemap is HTML even though I submitted the XML sitemap. So, can you describe the difference between them ?

[davidsmith21]

The Primary difference between XMl sitemap and an HTML sitemap is that XML is primarily meant for search engines whereas HTML is written for users.

The XML sitemap includes not only your homepage's URL, but all the URLs within the site along with the associated metadata.

[veraajverma]

XML sitemap is created for crawlers. And html sitemap is designed for users on website.

[24x7servermanag]

Basic difference between XML sitemap and HTML sitmap is that, XML site map are for search engine while HTML sitemap is for users.

XML site maps are very important for the web-browser for ranking the web-pages because search engine used to get the pages form the XML sitemap.

HTML sitemaps are just pages and it's information. It describe the general scenario of the site. HTML is important for the user and also important to track how visitors use your website as well.

[marksteve741]

HTML sitemap is use for user point of view and xml sitemap is use for search engine point of view.

[wellliving]

Hi

The simplest explanation is that XML is primarily for the search engines while HTML is written for the users. A XML sitemap protocol is specifically intended for search engine spiders. At its root, XML is a file that includes all the behind the scenes activity on a web site.

https://www.welllivingshop.com/baby/

[anirban09P]

HTML sitemaps and XML are both useful to help search engine to crawl your site.This is the important task for On-page SEO

[sadianisar]

Difference between HTML and XML sitemaps are:

HTML sitemaps are used for users for navigation purpose
XML sitemaps are used for SEO purpose. They are utilized by search engines to get the webpages or links of the website indexed.

[Goyum]

HTML sitemaps are designed for humans to navigate the website.

XML sitemaps on the other hand are designed for search engines to know the site structure.

[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.

[mansi]

HTML sitemap is used for the user's navigation on site. XML sitemap is used for search engine to crawl all the URL's of a website.

[Sherin]

There are two types of sitemaps XML sitemap & HTML sitemap

XML sitemap is used for search engine robots

It is a website file to tell search engines of all your site content and pages.
It helps search engine robots to read and crawl your site more effectively.
More pages index by search engines means to generate more search impressions and traffic.
An XML sitemap is hard to read by a human.XML sitemaps can updated automatically

HTML sitemap is used for humans

HTML sitemap is well known by people especially by those people who are not engaged in internet marketing.
This kind of sitemap is mainly used to help visitors of a website to find what they need conveniently or help
the visitors clearly know the structure of a website.HTML sitemaps can not updated.

[nicksavoia]

We include html sitemap for users & XML sitemap for search engine indexing.