PowerMapper Desktop

Visual Site Mapping

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Sitemaps

Automatically generate visual and XML search engine sitemaps in one click. Unlock new UX heights by using maps to identify and resolve your site's weak spots.

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Simple

Making all of our tools one click is part of our pledge towards creating accessible solutions that anyone can use.

Dynamic

PowerMapper automatically generates sitemaps in a variety of vibrant styles to support your UX journey.

Effective

Instantly build quality sitemaps without the cost or labor involved in manual site mapping.

Trusted

Our site mapping solutions are the trusted choice for more than 30% of the Fortune 100.

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Mapping Process

1

Map Pages

The scan engine collects data and thumbnails for each page.

2

Deep Dive

Then, all pages are checked for links to unmapped pages.

3

Scan Time

Pages found in the previous step are queued for scanning.

4

Produce Map

Your map is generated once all pages have been scanned.

There are lots of good tools out there to generate sitemaps, but this tool creates 2D & 3D visual sitemaps for you – which is really powerful when trying to understand how crawlers navigate your site, or explain to a client the architectural issues a site may be facing.

This has to be one of the best tools I have ever used within an SEO project. PowerMapper creates visual sitemaps of website so that you can have a complete visual view of the structure of a website.

Powermapper is spectacular for showing clients the structure of their site without the need for a spreadsheet.

Summary

PowerMapper is an automatic site mapping tool for information architects, usability analysts and web developers. It is used in more than 50 countries, by 30% of the Fortune 100, and major organizations like NASA and MIT.

  • Platforms: Macintosh and Windows
  • Use: inside and outside firewall, including intranets and development sites

Creating a map is simple: just navigate to your site using the built in web browser, then click Map.

Visual sitemaps

PowerMapper draws maps in a range of useful and attractive styles using thumbnails of each page.

Professional Edition also exports Google XML sitemaps and Excel CSVs.

Electrum Map Style

This thumbnail sitemap shows miniature snapshots (thumbnails) of each web page organized hierarchically. The map can be re-centered on a new page by drilling down using the [+] symbols.

Electrum
Skyscraper Map Style

This sitemap displays blocks for each page on the site, with the taller blocks representing pages closest to the home page. It's useful for detecting site structures where most of the content clusters in one or two sections of the site.

Skyscraper
Page Cloud Map Style

This sitemap displays website structure by arranging pages in clusters centered around the parent page. The map can be re-centered on a new page by drilling down using the [+] symbols.

Page Cloud
Page Stack Map Style

This sitemap displays a graphical button for each page on the site. You can customize the map with your own icons.

Page Stack

Create site maps cost effectively

Creating a site map manually takes hours or days, even for medium size sites. PowerMapper creates site maps automatically with a single click. Ballpark costs to manually create a site map are:

  • 3 minutes per page to create and layout a box for each page in a drawing package then copy-and-paste the page title or url
  • Total Effort: 50 hours to create a map of a 1,000 page site (3 minutes x 1,000 pages)
  • Total Cost: $2,500 at $50 per hour (50 hours x $50)

PowerMapper can build a better site map in under 5 minutes for a small fraction of the cost.

PowerMapper Alloy map style

Reviews and testimonials

Generating this kind of map of an existing site should be the first step anyone takes when redesigning a site. Steve Krug, Author “Don’t Make Me Think”

PowerMapper, its Windows utility for Web designers, has just one function – creating interactive Web-site maps – but does that job quickly and very well. InfoWorld

More reviews are available in the reviews section.

Documentation

Get in-depth technical information about PowerMapper features, benefits, and capabilities.

More documentation including datasheets, white papers, deployment guides, user guides and the license agreement are available in the technical resources section.

System requirements

System requirements for SortSite Desktop are:

  • Windows 10 (or later)
  • Mac (macOS 12 or later)
  • 4 GB RAM
  • 20 MB free disk space

PowerMapper is also available as a web application running in the cloud, which works on any device.