Sitemap — XML sitemap for your store

The Sitemap module generates your XML sitemap for an online store as a static file — and that is the key architectural decision here. The sitemap is not rendered per crawler request: an administrator (or cron) writessitemap.xmlonce, and the web server serves it directly with zero PHP involved.

The difference shows up exactly where it hurts: a large catalogue and frequent crawls. Runtime generation on every request is the classic reason a sitemap times out precisely when the crawler came to read it.

What the free version does

• A static XML sitemap covering products, categories and content pages.
• One-click generation from the admin panel.
• A per-entity toggle: exclude a specific page from the sitemap without editing the file by hand.

What Pro adds

sitemap.pro is the most substantial extension in the catalogue, covering everything a store that has outgrown a single sitemap needs:

• Branched files: asitemapindexplus per-typesitemap-{type}.xml, split automatically when limits are reached.
• Images (image:image), so product photos reach image search.
• Video.
• Facet landings — curated filter pages you deliberately expose to indexing.
• Extended multilingual support.
• gzip compression.
• Scheduled regeneration — the sitemap refreshes itself.

How Pro is protected

Worth explaining honestly, because it is unusual. The protection is twofold: first, Pro files are physically absent from the free build — there is nothing to unlock. Second, even a file copied in from elsewhere will not run without a signed grant for your specific store. This is not aimed at you; it is the reason authors are willing to publish here at all.

Adjacent in SEO: llms.txt, a description of your store for AI agents, in the SEO section. The base sitemap ships inside the free build.