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Rule · Sitemaps

Sitemap files stay within protocol limits

SEO-SITEMAP-01C1 Mechanism· w8

Class
C1 Mechanism
Weight
8
Severity on fail
critical
Applies to
Google and Bing

Test this rule on a live site with the XML sitemap checker. Free, no account needed.

Scope and evidence

Evaluated on each sitemap file. The book marks this requirement REQUIRED, STANDARD.

{entry_kind} is "URLs" for a sitemap and "sitemaps" for an index.

Fail conditions

Each condition has a stable code and a reason template. The evaluator fills the placeholders from observed values only; no sentence in a report is generated.

  • too_many_urls

    The sitemap {sitemap} has {count} {entry_kind} and is {bytes} bytes uncompressed. The Sitemaps protocol limits each file to 50,000 entries and 50MB (52,428,800 bytes), and Google applies the same limits.

  • too_large

    The sitemap {sitemap} has {count} {entry_kind} and is {bytes} bytes uncompressed. The Sitemaps protocol limits each file to 50,000 entries and 50MB (52,428,800 bytes), and Google applies the same limits.

  • index_too_many

    The sitemap {sitemap} has {count} {entry_kind} and is {bytes} bytes uncompressed. The Sitemaps protocol limits each file to 50,000 entries and 50MB (52,428,800 bytes), and Google applies the same limits.

  • index_too_large

    The sitemap {sitemap} has {count} {entry_kind} and is {bytes} bytes uncompressed. The Sitemaps protocol limits each file to 50,000 entries and 50MB (52,428,800 bytes), and Google applies the same limits.

The documented fix

Split into several files and list them in a sitemap index.

Sources, quoted

These are the passages the rule rests on, stored once in the knowledge base and emitted exactly as written. A citation marked for specific conditions appears only on findings with those codes.