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Glossary

What is a sitemap?

A sitemap.xml file lists every URL a site wants a search engine to index, close to exhaustive by design, unlike a curated file such as llms.txt.

A sitemap is an XML file at sitemap.xml listing the URLs a site wants a search engine to index. It aims to be close to exhaustive: every page that should show up in search, not a curated selection.

That is the opposite instinct from llms.txt, which leaves most of a site out on purpose. Birta's own site has one at /sitemap.xml, generated from its published pages; a project you publish through Birta does not get one of its own today.

For how a sitemap differs from llms.txt and robots.txt, see what is an llms.txt file, a real one explained line by line.