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site.sitemap-too-large

ErrorSEO auditcrawl

A sitemap holds more than 50,000 URLs or more than 50 MB uncompressed, which search engines do not read (error); or it is larger than this audit reads (15 MB; 5 MB on the hosted server), so it was not checked (info).

What to change

Split the sitemap into files of at most 50,000 URLs and 50 MB each, and list them in a sitemap index.

The documentation on developers.google.com

A finding of this rule on a page carries the exact edits for that page: the markup it quotes, and what to write instead.

When it runs

Runs on a crawl or a build directory. An error is a problem that keeps a page out of search or out of answers, or breaks how it shows there. Each finding takes 15 points off the page's score.

The severity here is the rule's usual one: a finding can be raised or lowered when the page gives a reason.

Run it, or skip it

Check a page for this rule alone, after a fix for instance:

npx @rivi-software/agentic-seo-check crawl https://example.com --rule site.sitemap-too-large

Or from an assistant, with the MCP tool seo_crawl_site:

{
  "url": "https://example.com",
  "rules": [
    "site.sitemap-too-large"
  ]
}

To leave it out of an audit, pass --disable site.sitemap-too-large on the command, or disableRules: ["site.sitemap-too-large"] to a tool.

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