PowerMapper
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Developer(s) | Electrum |
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Stable release | 5.6
/ Nov 18, 2011 |
Operating system | Microsoft Windows |
Type | Web crawler |
License | EULA |
Website | http://www.powermapper.com/ |
PowerMapper is a web crawler that automatically creates a site map of a website using thumbnails of each web page. A number of map styles are available, although the cheaper Standard edition has fewer styles than the Professional edition.
Map styles[]
Site maps can be displayed in a number of different map styles which arrange sites into a tree structure. 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
- Thumbtree - 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 sitemaps format for use by the Google, Yahoo and MSN search engines.
Reviews[]
The product received positive reviews in InfoWorld [1] for the 1.0 release in 1997, and subsequent reviews for the 4.0 release in Microsoft Technet Magazine [2] and WebsiteTips.com [3] were also favorable.
A list of problems commonly encountered by users is provided by the vendor in the PowerMapper FAQ.
Licensing[]
PowerMapper is commercial licensed software which uses serial numbers to prevent unlicensed usage. Standard licensing is per-user, but pooled floating licences are also available at extra cost.
See also[]
- Site map, a graphical representation of the architecture of a web site
- Sitemaps, a standard for URL inclusion in search engines
References[]
- Web crawlers