Google's John Mueller posted on Reddit that he agrees, that HTML sitemaps are not worthwhile for SEO purposes. He said "I agree. When it comes to SEO ... for small sites, your site should be crawlable ...

This XML sitemap is used by search engines which follow the XML sitemap standard. This file contains links to sub-sitemaps, follow them to see the actual sitemap content. This file was dynamically ...

John Mueller of Google has always downplayed the importance of HTML sitemaps over the years, he is a fan of XML sitemaps, but HTML sitemaps, not so much. On Mastodon the other day, he really showed ...