Sitemap limits checking is missing

[ghost]

Sitemaps have limits and they should be checked:

• max size 50MB
• max 50,000 URLs

If size limit is exceeded, sitemap has to be splitted into multiple sitemaps with a sitemap index file.

[vezaynk]

There's probably a creative way to determine the size of the sitemap file up-to-this-point without querying the file system after each url.

The 50000 max urls is quite easy to implement.

[ghost]

You could also make the sitemap disregarding the limits, then check the limits and if they are reached, split the sitemap.

[vezaynk]

That's also a way.

[efimBistrov]

Is there any ability added for sitemap limits at the moment?

[vezaynk]

There is not. It's a relatively straight-forward feature which I don't have time to tackle at the moment.
I'm just fixing bugs and merging PRs lately.

If you are uncomfortable writing PHP in order to add it to the project, writing a separate program to post-process the sitemaps is also an option.

[olariuromeo]

I have 794,769 categories and about 3,617,181 pages in my website, how can sitemaps be splitted into multiple sitemaps? also google only receives the sitemap in xml.gz format so your script is not very useful except for very small sites