I thought this service would explore links and draw site map for me..
The website is built using a CMS that's part of our product line, which auto-generates a sitemap.xml file. It also automatically produces a Sitemap page: https://surroundtech.com/sitemap. The two tabs of interest are "Cards", which shows how each page would look when shared via social media links, and "Sitemap Tree" which shows the (non-graphical) page tree.
To be fair to the visual tool, our auto-generated xml is just a flat list of urls, and our auto-generated url routing is a flat list of uniquely named pages rather than a /-separated hierarchy. To create our own sitemap page we use the hierarchy that's built into our CMS, which also creates the top-level menu on the site.
*one thing we noticed is that your site does have an https certificate! I'd deeply consider fixing that since it will harm your google rankings[1].
[1]https://neilpatel.com/blog/does-a-ssl-certificate-affect-you...
> He found that HTTPS is moderately correlated with higher search rankings on the search engine giant’s first page.
But it just shows you a nested tree based on url depth using / as a delimiter - what it doesn't do is traverse the site or anything.
Still, it's quite pretty tho. I guess if you had a really deep url structure on your site, it would help you visualise it somewhat.
When I tried with one of our leaf sitemaps that is nearing the 50k item limit it just errored. Given that all of the URLs are of the form `/item/<id>`, I'd expect it to be able to understand that there's only really one page type that they need to represent for that in their visual sitemap.
As sibling comments point out, there are kinks to work out in mapping out different website structures, and I would add the suggestion that greater information density could improve the UX.
But just think about the collective thousands of hours spent looking for things on websites. Helping a fraction of us find things a bit faster would add up to a big impact.
1. The design looks similar to Hey.com
2. The domain name/name is like Octopus Deploy.
