HTML Sitemap?

an HTML sitemap is mostly for user experience. It allows your visitors to quickly navigate through your site's content.

For rankings, what you need is an XML sitemap.
 
An HTML sitemap allows site visitors to easily navigate a website. It is a bulleted outline text version of the site navigation. The anchor text displayed in the outline is linked to the page it references. Site visitors can go to the Sitemap to locate a topic they are unable to find by searching the site or navigating through the site menus.
Sitemaps are important for SEO because they make it easier for Google to find your site's pages—this is important because Google ranks web PAGES not just websites. There is no downside of having an HTML/XML Sitemap and having one can improve your SEO, so we highly recommend them.
 
The HTML sitemap is for people visiting the site,and most often we can find it in the footer.it makes it easier for lost users to navigate and find the right sub page.It is valuable for hyman visitors as it allows them to find any page within your site quickly.It is very important for SEO.
 
Is it still important for SEO? I don't know if it is anymore unless your website is quite large and/or difficult to navigate. I think that if your website's layout and navigation menu are written with clean HTML then that will suffice.

It can be useful for web accessibility in any efforts to comply with WCAG 2.0 guidelines. But I doubt anyone here cares about that.

However a sitemap.xml file is definitely important and it should be submitted to Google Search Console for indexing.
 
HTML sitemap is for the users to easily navigate to the website...
 
It allows site visitors to navigate a website. It is a bulleted outline text version of the site navigation
Yes it is important for SEO as it makes it easier for Google to find your site , it is used to rank your site page.
 
XML sitemap is useful for website SEO, HTML is for the user experience. But XML is for the search engines.
 
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