Does Large Sitemaps Casue Problems

Suppose if sitemaps are large do the cause any problem

like suppose my site map is 10 mb will google not download it or something

 

The Google sitemap has a limit of 50,000 URLs and 10 MegaBytes per site map. It's possible to create an index of the sitemap pages which allows for a total of 1000 sitemaps.
Sitemap files can be compressed using gzip, reducing bandwidth consumption.

 

You've have to have a LOT of pages to have a 10MB sitemap. I have about 4300 pages in one, and it's not even 1MB

 

I've actually experienced it. Just about 1.5MB of sitemap file, and the .txt file was dropping letters for no reason. eg: instead of image2.jpeg, it became image2.j

I had to manually edit it.

 

basically my sitemap is abt 5 mb and google didnt cause any prob

thanks for the help

 

Well, many sitemap generator programs can automatically split links into multiple xml sitemap files (e.g. when passing 20,000 or 50,000 thousand links)

 

10 mb is a bit huge .. i have about 34000 links in about less than 4mb and compressed to gz to make it just about 200 kb

 

I need ways to put about 15,000 links in my sitemap, found one that does only 1000 at max, but thats only a few kilobytes, never hit megabytes yet