Sitemap exceeds 50,000 URLs

HighDeveloper fixSitemapsSite-wide checksitemap_too_many_urls

What this means

A single sitemap file may hold at most 50,000 URLs. Past that limit the file is rejected, and every URL in it goes undiscovered through this route.

How to fix it

Split the URLs across several sitemap files and reference them all from a sitemap index.

Fix effort

This check needs a developer fix: it turns on a routing, hosting or infrastructure decision that no automatic edit can make safely.

Authoritative source

https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/sitemaps/large-sitemaps

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