Why Google can't read my sitemaps ?
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Pacific herring posted this in #help-forum
Pacific herringOP
Everyday I have a script build my sitemaps and Ive added them in Google Search Console. But after months, its still 0 pages discovered :
For example I have this sitemaps for users :
And after something like :
Also my website 2 years ago had around 10k pages in Google Search Console, now only 2 which is crazy 😂 . I dont understand how we are supposed to debug without waiting 5 months to now if its worse or better...
Thx for your help !
For example I have this sitemaps for users :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><sitemapindex xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"><sitemap><loc>https://recomend.app/sitemaps/users/0.xml.gz</loc><lastmod>2026-06-07</lastmod></sitemap></sitemapindex>And after something like :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"><url><loc>https://recomend.app/@loup</loc><lastmod>2026-04-27T08:12:05.348064</lastmod><priority>0.6</priority></url><url><loc>https://recomend.app/@yozer</loc><lastmod>2026-04-12T14:54:16.532520</lastmod><priority>0.6</priority></url><url><loc>https://recomend.app/@clemggn</loc><lastmod>2026-04-16T20:13:42.896964</lastmod><priority>0.6</priority></url><url><loc>https://recomend.app/@safresh</loc><lastmod>2026-03-31T09:28:45.568701</lastmod><priority>0.6</priority></url><url><loc>https://recomend.app/@lab_arthe</loc><lastmod>2025-01-01T15:24:46.307980</lastmod><priority>0.6</priority></url><url><loc>https://recomend.app/@meymey</loc><lastmod>2024-10-27T18:15:23.519259</lastmod><priority>0.6</priority></url><url><loc>https://recomend.app/@skixio</loc><lastmod>2024-11-07T00:57:36.820655</lastmod><priority>0.6</priority></url><url><loc>https://recomend.app/@mariec</loc><lastmod>2024-11-07T16:52:18.991859</lastmod><priority>0.6</priority></url><url><loc>https://recomend.app/@naialine</loc>Also my website 2 years ago had around 10k pages in Google Search Console, now only 2 which is crazy 😂 . I dont understand how we are supposed to debug without waiting 5 months to now if its worse or better...
Thx for your help !
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@B33fb0n3 how do you generate your sitemap? via npm `next-sitemap`?
Pacific herringOP
Well no, I build my sitemap with python script because there is to many element to calculate. For example i have 1 millions movies, 4 millions personnalities, so I have to build .xml file each day with script
@Pacific herring Well no, I build my sitemap with python script because there is to many element to calculate. For example i have 1 millions movies, 4 millions personnalities, so I have to build .xml file each day with script
nextjs can handle that too using indexed sitemaps, so I wonder why an extra python script is needed to create that many elements and calculations: https://nextjs.org/docs/app/api-reference/file-conventions/metadata/sitemap#generating-multiple-sitemaps
When thats solved, then you get your sitemap with the correct links and google can index the index sitemaps, that then refers to the actual sitemaps, that contain the 5 million links. Like that google will index all index sitemaps and like that also all the links
When thats solved, then you get your sitemap with the correct links and google can index the index sitemaps, that then refers to the actual sitemaps, that contain the 5 million links. Like that google will index all index sitemaps and like that also all the links
@B33fb0n3 nextjs can handle that too using indexed sitemaps, so I wonder why an extra python script is needed to create that many elements and calculations: https://nextjs.org/docs/app/api-reference/file-conventions/metadata/sitemap#generating-multiple-sitemaps
When thats solved, then you get your sitemap with the correct links and google can index the index sitemaps, that then refers to the actual sitemaps, that contain the 5 million links. Like that google will index all index sitemaps and like that also all the links
Pacific herringOP
Ive alrerady try using only nextjs but it was too slow to generate compare to using a python script on powerful computer just during the build
I was wondering which should I use :
or :
ContentType='application/xml',
ContentEncoding='gzip'or :
ContentType='application/gzip'