PowerMapper

PowerMapper is a web crawler that automatically creates a site map of a website using thumbnails from each web page.

Map styles A site map 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, 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 site maps format for use by the Google, Yahoo and MSN search engines.

See also Site map, a graphical representation of the architecture of a web site Sitemaps, a standard for URL inclusion in search engines

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