Sitemap limits and requirements

Scope of this page

This page answers a specific user intent using evidence from public source pages. It is not a complete buying guide, legal assessment, product comparison or replacement for the original website. Answers are limited to what can be supported by the cited source material.

Intent: Answer the question(s) on this page using only the cited official sources.

Topic: Create Perfect Sitemap

Last updated:

Primary source: https://internetwarriors.de/en/blog/create-perfect-sitemap

Quick Info

50 MB or 50,000 URLs.

Purpose and usage

This page provides short, extractable answers for the topic above.

Key points

  • Prerequisite for a complete sitemap: what must be present?: Prerequisite: URL, Lastmod, change frequency, and priority weighting must be present.
  • What limit applies in an image sitemap for each URL?: Up to 1,000 images can be specified per URL.

Terms and entities

Canonical definitions live on the Facts pages. This page only references them.

What is the maximum size of a sitemap?

50 MB or 50,000 URLs.

Prerequisite for a complete sitemap: what must be present?

Prerequisite: URL, Lastmod, change frequency, and priority weighting must be present.

What limit applies in an image sitemap for each URL?

Up to 1,000 images can be specified per URL.

Sources

  1. https://internetwarriors.de/en/blog/create-perfect-sitemap

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