--- metadata: - name: generator content: Diplodoc Platform v5.55.2 alternate: - https://yandex.com.tr/support/webmaster/en/error-dictionary/sitemap.md - https://yandex.com.tr/support/webmaster/tr/error-dictionary/sitemap.md - href: en/error-dictionary/sitemap.md type: text/markdown title: Markdown version - href: ../llms.txt type: text/markdown title: llms.txt --- > **Documentation Index:** Fetch the complete configuration index at https://yandex.com.tr/support/webmaster/en/llms.txt # Sitemap errors reference ## Errors {#errors} List of errors that occur when processing the `sitemap` file. #| || **Error** | **Description** || || Not indexed. | Failed to download `sitemap` file. File URL might be incorrect. || || Maximum file size exceeded | The `Sitemap` file size exceeds 50 MB. || || HTTP error | When trying to download the `sitemap` file, an HTTP status other than 200 was received. || || Invalid URL | Invalid URL of the `sitemap` file is specified. || || Connection lost | Server terminated connection when loading the `sitemap` file. || || DNS error | Failed to download the file because of DNS error. File URL might be incorrect. || || Connection failed | The `Sitemap` file failed to download, because the server connection failed. || || The URL is forbidden in `robots.txt` | The URL of the `sitemap` file is prohibited in the `robots.txt` file and therefore it could not be downloaded. Check the correctness of the `robots.txt` file and the `sitemap` file address. || || Incorrect HTTP response | Sitemap file failed to load because the web server response doesn't match HTTP protocol. || || Response contains no data | When downloading the `sitemap` file, the server returned an empty document. || || Extraction error | An error occurred while extracting the `Sitemap` file [compressed using gzip](http://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.html#index). || || Tag found more than once | The specified tag should occur in the given context only once. || || Unknown tag | The specified tag should not occur in the given context. || || Tag not found | Required tag is missing. || || Incorrect page address | The URL does not match to the standard. || || Incorrect URL (doesn't match the `Sitemap` file location) | The location of the `Sitemap` file determines the set of URLs that you can include in this file. A file located in a directory must contain a URL from the same directory or its subdirectories. For details, see [Sitemap file location](http://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.html#location). || || URL too long | URL length exceeds the limit (1024 characters). || || Tag cannot be empty | The specified tag must not be empty. || || Tag cannot contain other tags | The specified tag must not contain nested tags. || || Data limit exceeded | The specified tag contains too much data. || || Tag contains no data | The specified tag doesn't contain necessary data. || || Wrong encoding | The `Sitemap` file doesn't start with the correct UTF-8 prefix (0xEF 0xBB 0xBF). It should start with the following string: `` || || Invalid XML | The `sitemap` file is not a well-formed XML document complying with XML syntax rules. || || Too many errors (processing terminated) | There are more than 100 errors found in the `Sitemap` file. Further processing of the file was terminated. || || URL limit exceeded | A `Sitemap` file can contain a maximum of 50,000 URLs. If you need to list more than 50,000 URLs, create several `Sitemap` files and include them in a `Sitemap` index file (see [Using Sitemap index files](http://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.html#index)). || || The number of `Sitemap` files exceeds the limit | The `Sitemap` index file can contain a maximum of 50000 URLs of `Sitemap` files. || || Multiple incorrect URLs in file (processing terminated) | `Sitemap` file begins with consecutive incorrect URLs. Further processing of the file was terminated because the file is likely to have invalid format. || || A `sitemap index` file cannot contain links to other `sitemap index` files | The `Sitemap` index file can only contain references to `sitemap`files, not to other `sitemap` index files. || || Root tag error | An error occurred while processing the root tag. || |# ## Warnings {#warnings} The list of warnings that occur when processing the `sitemap` files #| || **Warning** | **Description** || || Encoding not UTF-8 | UTF-8 prefix (0xEF 0xBB 0xBF) is missing. || || Unknown tag (ignored) | Unexpected tag was detected. It may be a [Sitemap protocol extension](http://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.html#extending). The tag is ignored. || || Unknown text (ignored) | An unexpected text was detected during the processing. The text is ignored. || || Unknown attribute (ignored) | An unexpected attribute was detected during the processing. The attribute is ignored. || || Too many warnings (warnings terminated) | More than 100 warning were generated when processing the `sitemap` file. Warning are not displayed any more. || || Empty line (ignored) | Empty line was detected when processing the `sitemap` file. || || Incorrect URL (doesn't correspond to `Sitemap` index file location) | The `Sitemap` index file can include the URLs of `sitemap` files located on the same site. For details, see [Using sitemap index files](http://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.html#index) || || Invalid URL priority format | Priority must be a number from 0.0 to 1.0. For details, see [XML tag definitions](http://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.html#prioritydef). || || Tag must contain data | The specified tag must contain data. || || A tag cannot contain other tags | The specified tag cannot contain child tags. || || Too much data in tag | The specified tag contains too much data. || || Tag contains no data | Required data is missing in the specified tag. || || Invalid `lastmod` tag value | The `Lastmod` tag contains an invalid date. The date must be in the [the W3C Datetime](http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime) format. || |#



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