Simple Google Sitemap

Simple Google Sitemap is google sitemap generator for Opencart 2. This one is better and faster then default generator. On a shared hosting with 128 Mb memory limit, execution time is about 3 sec. for ~30000 products with ~10000 images, ~300 categories and ~350 manufacturers (if images already cached). See also Simple Google Sitemap Pro

Features:  

• image tag for products
• lastmod tag for products and categories
• support the extension Advance News System does not support from v.2.0
• log file (execution time, IP, User Agent) 
• the version 2.0 has its own interface and canbe installed usual way

A string from log file (system/storage/logs/simple_google_sitemap.log):

2016-03-19 15:40:20 - Sitemap was generated for 0.0034 s. Request from 66.249.66.85 Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)

HOW TO INSTALL (v2.0 for opencart 2.3+)

At first, go to admin area of your site.

Step 1: Upload extension (zip file) in Extensions -> Extension installer or unzip files and upload via FTP to your site
Step 2: Go to Extension -> Feeds and Enable Simple Google Sitemap
Step 3: Find in .htaccess the line 
  RewriteRule ^sitemap.xml$ index.php?route=extension/feed/google_sitemap [L]   
and replace it with
  RewriteRule ^sitemap.xml$ index.php?route=extension/feed/simple_google_sitemap [L] 

HOW TO INSTALL (only for 1.x for opencart 2.0-2.2)

At first, go to admin area of your site.

Step 1: Upload extension (zip file) in Extensions -> Extension installer (FTP in System->Settings must be enabled) or unzip files and upload via FTP to your site
Step 2: Go to Extension -> Feeds and Enable DEFAULT Google Sitemap
Step 3: Find in .htaccess the line 
  RewriteRule ^sitemap.xml$ index.php?route=feed/google_sitemap [L]   
and replace it with
  RewriteRule ^sitemap.xml$ index.php?route=feed/simple_google_sitemap [L]