What is the difference between xml and html sitemap

[bangalorewebguru]

What is the difference between xml and html sitemap

[Webhelpforums]

Read this article about sitemaps that explains all the differences between the different kinds: https://www.microsystools.com/products/sitemap-generator/help/website-sitemap-kinds-comparison/

[ademar]

XML Sitemap is designed for the search engines as it is submitted to the webmaster tools to crawl the website. This is for search engines.
HTML sitemap is designed for humans as they are can clearly see it on websites as an extra web pages and all the visitors of the website  can make use of it for understanding the website. This is for users friendly.

[RH-Calvin]

HTML sitemap is a plain text sitemap used by browsers to know and surf through your website pages. XML sitemap is a coded sitemap used to submit in webmaster tool to help spiders crawl them and index the webpages in search engines.

[praveenitech1]

XML Sitemap is designed for the search engines as it is submitted to the webmaster tools to crawl the website. This is for search engines.
HTML sitemap is designed for humans as they are can clearly see it on websites as an extra web pages and all the visitors of the website  can make use of it for understanding the website.

[JamesC]

Google crawler doesn't understand the HTML code file as sitemap, to make him understand we code sitemap in eXtensible Markup language (XML). HTML sitemap is for user understanding to surf through the website.

[manish jadhav]

What is the difference between xml and html sitemap

I will tell you simple difference between xml sitemap and html sitamp.
1. xml sitemap -Specially designed for the search engine 
2. html sitemap- Specially designed for the user

[fisherjames731]

The simplest explanation is that XML is primarily for the search engines while HTML is written for the users. A XML sitemap protocol is specifically intended for search engine spiders. At its root, XML is a file that includes all the behind the scenes activity on a web site.