PowerMapper Desktop
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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.
Powerful Solutions
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.
Mapping Process
Map Pages
The scan engine collects data and thumbnails for each page.
Deep Dive
Then, all pages are checked for links to unmapped pages.
Scan Time
Pages found in the previous step are queued for scanning.
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.
ElectrumSkyscraper 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.
SkyscraperPage 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 CloudPage 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 StackCreate 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.
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.