What is a sitemap XML gz file?
Last updated: February 7, 2022. XML Sitemap in short. An XML Sitemap is a special document which lists all pages on a website to provide search engines with an overview of all the available content. It's strongly recommended to implement an XML Sitemap, especially on larger websites (500+ pages).
Should sitemap be compressed?
Compressing your Sitemap index file
Speaking of being considerate of your bandwidth, if you can, you should compress your Sitemaps and your Sitemap indexes using gzip.
Does Google have a sitemap generator?
Google Sitemap Generator is a server plug-in that can be installed on both Linux/Apache and Microsoft IIS Windows-based servers. As with other server-side plug-ins, you will need to have administrative access to the server to install it.