XML Sitemap Generator for Google (by Auctollo) is the long-running directory plugin that emits sitemap.xml, paginated sitemap index files, and per-content-type sitemap files for posts, pages, custom post types, and taxonomies. It reads from wp_posts filtered by post_status = publish and the included-post-types option, plus wp_terms for taxonomy sitemaps. Excluded post IDs and excluded categories live in the sm_options option.

The XML output is what crawlers see. It is not what editors and SEO leads see. Neither group opens sitemap.xml to answer "how many URLs are we exposing right now" or "which post type dominates the sitemap mix". SleekView Charts reads wp_posts with the same inclusion rules, joins to wp_terms for the taxonomy sitemaps, and renders four cards in WP Admin: total indexable URLs, share by post type, top categories by sitemap entry count, and URLs added per week from post_date.

XML Sitemap Generator still owns the XML emission, the priority and changefreq fields, and the ping to Google. SleekView only reads the underlying tables with the same filters, so the sitemap becomes legible as a sized object instead of as a file editors never open.

XML Sitemap Generator does its job at request time: crawlers get sitemap.xml and the per-type files. The editorial team needs the same data as numbers, not as XML. None of the obvious questions (how big is the sitemap, what mix, what cadence) are visible from the file itself without manual parsing.

SleekView Charts reads wp_posts and wp_terms with the same filters and renders four cards that answer those questions in one glance. The data is correct because the plugin already shaped it. Charts just gives the team a dashboard to look at it.

Sitemap reviews stop needing an XML viewer or a Search Console pivot, and the file finally has a human-readable companion view.