How many links can you have on sitemap.html

[imjonny]

we have a lot of pages that we want to create crawlable paths to. How many links are able to be crawled on 1 page for sitemap.html

[TimHolmes]

Sitemaps are limited to 50MB (uncompressed) and 50,000 URLs from Google perspective.

All formats limit a single sitemap to 50MB (uncompressed) and 50,000 URLs. If you have a larger file or more URLs, you will have to break it into multiple sitemaps. You can optionally create a sitemap index file (a file that points to a list of sitemaps) and submit that single index file to Google. You can submit multiple sitemaps and/or sitemap index files to Google.

Just for everyone's references - here is a great list of 20 limits that you may not know about.

20 Google limits

[Rajesh.Prajapati]

Hi Imjonny,

As you know google crawl all pages without creating any sitemap. You don't need to create html sitemap. Xml sitemap is sufficient to crawl all pages. if you have millions pages, You need to create html sitemap with proper category wise and keep upto 1000 links on one page. . As you know html site map is creating for user not Google, So you don't need to worry about that too much.

Thanks
Rajesh

[BrvceTHW]

We break ours down to 1000 per page. A simple setting in Yoast SEO - if you decide to use their sitemap tool. It's worked well for us though I may bump that number up a bit.

[imjonny]

Well rather the amount of links each page of the sitemap.html is allowed to have. For example, If I have a huge site, I don't want to place all links on 1 page, I would probably break them out to allow the crawlers some breathing room between different links.

[GastonRiera]

Hello!

I get that you are referring to the maximum size and/or the limit of URLs the sitemap file can have. That gets answered in the faq of sitemap.org: (link here)

Q: How big can my Sitemap be?
Sitemaps should be no larger than 50MB (52,428,800 bytes) and can contain a maximum of 50,000 URLs.

Best luck!
GR