[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #64044: Request to change the limit of each sitemap to 1000 urls instead of 2000 urls as current

[WordPress Trac]

#64044: Request to change the limit of each sitemap to 1000 urls instead of 2000
urls as current
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 Reporter:  phanduynam   |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  closed
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:
Component:  Sitemaps     |     Version:
 Severity:  normal       |  Resolution:  wontfix
 Keywords:               |     Focuses:
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Comment (by phanduynam):

 @SirLouen The issue is not about how many sitemaps or how many pages of
 URLs you see in WordPress vs GSC. The problem is with the export limit
 inside Google Search Console.
         •       Google Search Console only lets you view and export 1,000
 URLs per sitemap.
         •       If your WordPress sitemap has 2,000 URLs per file (the WP
 default limit), then in GSC you will only be able to export 1,000 of them
 — meaning you lose half of the data for each sitemap.
         •       Example: If you have 10,000 URLs split into 5 sitemaps
 (2,000 URLs each), in GSC you can only export 5 × 1,000 = 5,000 URLs,
 instead of the full 10,000.

 So the real problem is not crawling or indexing — it’s the data shortage
 when exporting from GSC. To get all URLs, you need to change WordPress to
 output smaller sitemaps (e.g. 1,000 URLs per sitemap), but that means
 editing code or installing plugins. For people with many websites, that’s
 very time-consuming. That’s why this is a problem.

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/64044#comment:19>
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