diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 1c218dfa44f..aa447c96516 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ env:
     - CONDA_DEPENDENCIES="${CONDA_MIN_DEPENDENCIES} seaborn>=0.7.0 clustalw=2.1 netcdf4 scikit-learn coveralls"
     - CONDA_CHANNELS='biobuilds conda-forge'
     - CONDA_CHANNEL_PRIORITY=True
-    - PIP_DEPENDENCIES="duecredit"
+    - PIP_DEPENDENCIES="duecredit sphinx-sitemap"
     - NUMPY_VERSION=stable
     - INSTALL_HOLE="true"
 
diff --git a/package/doc/sphinx/source/conf.py b/package/doc/sphinx/source/conf.py
index d1654716028..58500a79ca2 100644
--- a/package/doc/sphinx/source/conf.py
+++ b/package/doc/sphinx/source/conf.py
@@ -36,10 +36,17 @@
 extensions = ['sphinx.ext.autodoc', 'sphinx.ext.intersphinx',
               'sphinx.ext.mathjax', 'sphinx.ext.viewcode',
               'sphinx.ext.napoleon', 'sphinx.ext.todo',
+              'sphinx_sitemap',
               'alabaster']
 
 mathjax_path = 'https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/mathjax/2.7.0/MathJax.js?config=TeX-AMS-MML_HTMLorMML'
 
+# for sitemap with https://github.com/jdillard/sphinx-sitemap
+# NOTE: This sitemap is only correct for the release doccs. The development docs
+#       are served from https://www.mdanalysis.org/mdanalysis/ and the sitemap.xml
+#       will NOT be correct for the development docs.
+site_url = "https://www.mdanalysis.org/docs/"
+
 # Add any paths that contain templates here, relative to this directory.
 templates_path = ['_templates']