Government and public sector
Canada.ca sitemap
A single urlset far past every size the protocol recommends — 50 MB of it, which is the limit rather than a margin below it.
The sitemaps protocol caps an uncompressed file at 50 MB and 50,000 URLs. This one sits at the very edge of the first limit, which makes it the most instructive entry in this directory: it is what the constraint looks like when a real site meets it.
It is also past our own 5 MB snapshot cap, so the entry page below reports it as too large to snapshot rather than as an outage. That distinction is ours to make honestly.
- Publisher
- Government of Canada
- Host
www.canada.ca- Format
- XML sitemap
- Root when listed
- urlset (2026-08-18)
- Size when listed
- 47.7 MB
What the last check saw
Document is 5 MB, over the 5 MB limit.Checked 2026-08-18 16:03 UTCStructure
No structure to show — and rather than a table of dashes, this says so. Structure is recorded from a successful fetch and never copied from the entry above: a directory that describes documents it has not read is a directory that is wrong without knowing it.
Recent checks
- oversize2026-08-18 16:03 UTC
- oversize2026-08-18 16:01 UTC
Where it reaches
- FormatsXML sitemapWhere the 50 MB and 50,000-URL limits are stated.
- FormatsSitemap indexThe answer when a sitemap outgrows those limits.
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