Google & Bing increase the file size limit of Sitemaps files 2017 tips

Google and Bing declared together that they have expanded the record measure utmost of Sitemaps documents from 10MB to 50MB.

That implies the uncompressed adaptation should now be under 50MB, no longer under 10MB.

Fabrice Canel, key program director at Bing, stated, "While most sitemaps are under this 10 MB record constrain, nowadays, our frameworks at times experience sitemaps surpassing this point of confinement. … Most regularly this is brought on when sitemap documents list long URLs or on the off chance that they have properties posting long additional URLs (as substitute dialect URLs, Image URLs, and so forth), which expands the span of the sitemap record."

The 50,000 URL confine per Sitemaps document has not transformed; you can in any case just have up to 50,000 URLs in a solitary Sitemap record. Yet, the document estimate has expanded altogether.

Here is Google's tweet about that at the beginning of today: