Review a list of URLs for every page on your site.

A site map (or sitemap) is a list of URLs on a site that tells search engines about the structure of its content.

Your Squarespace site comes with a site map using the .xml format, so you don't need to create one manually. It includes the URLs for all pages on your site and image metadata for SEO-friendly indexing.

We automatically update your sitemap with any pages you add or remove. Changes usually appear within an hour, although they can take up to 24 hours to appear.

Site maps aren't available for trial sites.

Note: Ensure your site availability is set to Public. If your site is Private or Password Protected, your site map won't load.

Find your site map

You can view your site map by adding:

/sitemap.xml

to the end of your domain. With your built-in Squarespace domain, your site map URL looks like this:

https://sitename.squarespace.com/sitemap.xml

Tip: Replace sitename with your own Squarespace site name.

If you have a custom domain, your site map URL looks like this:

https://www.yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml

Tip: Replace yourdomain.com with your primary domain and include www.

Making changes to your site map

Your site sitemap usually updates automatically within an hour of adding or removing pages to your site, although changes can sometimes take up to 24 hours to appear.

It's not possible to directly edit the site map.

Tip: While it's not possible to edit the site map or a page's source code directly to add SEO information, all Squarespace sites have built-in settings that automatically add SEO information, like HTML heading tags. To learn more about how we structure a site’s heading tags for SEO, visit Heading tags and Squarespace.

What isn't included

Site maps don't include:

• Disabled pages, pages that have page passwords, or pages hidden from search in page settings
• The old URLs used to create URL redirects
• Style information
• The URLs of uploaded files
• Code block and embed block content
• The individual URLs of pages in an index page (The content of those pages will appear. This means that search engines can still crawl all the content in your index page.)
• Dropdowns (The pages added to a dropdown will appear.)

Site maps and search engines

A site map tells search engines what pages are available for crawling. The position of a page in the site map doesn't affect its position in search results.

We set standard priorities for pages and blog posts in your site map. The homepage has a priority of one. Other pages have a priority of 0.75, and blog posts have a priority of 0.5.

Priorities can help search engines rank pages within your site relative to each other. For example, your homepage's priority of one shows that it's the most important page on your site. Aside from this, priorities don't influence the position of your pages in search results.