Sitemap errors reference
Errors
List of errors that occur when processing the sitemap
file.
Error |
Description |
Not indexed. |
Failed to download |
Maximum file size exceeded |
The |
HTTP error |
When trying to download the |
Invalid URL |
Invalid URL of the |
Connection lost |
Server terminated connection when loading the |
DNS error |
Failed to download the file because of DNS error. File URL might be incorrect. |
Connection failed |
The |
The URL is forbidden in |
The URL of the |
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 |
Extraction error |
An error occurred while extracting the |
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 |
The location of the |
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 |
Invalid XML |
The |
Too many errors (processing terminated) |
There are more than 100 errors found in the |
URL limit exceeded |
A |
The number of |
The |
Multiple incorrect URLs in file (processing terminated) |
|
A |
The |
Root tag error |
An error occurred while processing the root tag. |
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. 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 |
Empty line (ignored) |
Empty line was detected when processing the |
Incorrect URL (doesn't correspond to |
The |
Invalid URL priority format |
Priority must be a number from 0.0 to 1.0. For details, see XML tag definitions. |
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 |
The |