Software:PowerMapper

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Short description: Web crawler software
PowerMapper
Developer(s)Electrum
Stable release
5.6 / Nov 18, 2011
Operating systemMicrosoft Windows
TypeWeb crawler
LicenseEULA
Websitehttp://www.powermapper.com/

PowerMapper is a web crawler that automatically creates a site map of a website using thumbnails from each web page.[1]

Map styles

A site map is a comprehensive list of pages within a website's domain. It can serve three primary purposes: offering structured listings specifically designed for web crawlers such as search engines,[2] aiding designers during the website planning phase, and providing human-visible, typically hierarchical listings of site pages.

Site maps can be displayed in a number of different map styles. Some styles display thumbnails for each page, others use text-only presentation.

Map styles include:

  • Electrum – a simple thumbnail map style
  • Electrum 2.0 – a variation of the Electrum style that works better on larger sites
  • Isometric – a thumbnail map style using a pseudo-3D isometric projection
  • Page Cloud – a thumbnail map style with pages clustered into 3D clouds
  • Skyscrapers – an abstract representation of pages that looks like city blocks
  • Thumb Tree – a hierarchical thumbnail map style
  • Table Map – a plain text list of pages in a table
  • Table of Contents – a plain text list of pages
  • Tree View – an expanding table of contents

Site maps can also be exported in XML site maps format for use by the Google, Yahoo and MSN search engines.

See also

  • Site map, a graphical representation of the architecture of a web site
  • Sitemaps, a standard for URL inclusion in search engines

References