Sitemaps over 50 MB

IssueHigh priority

Sitemap files larger than 50 MB uncompressed, the most the sitemap protocol allows.

Why it matters

Search engines may ignore a sitemap past the limit altogether.

How to fix it

Split it into several sitemaps and list them in a sitemap index; compressing it does not change the limit.

Skitter runs this check on every crawl, and lists each page it finds with the evidence: the header, the tag or the link that gave it away.

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