No Compressed Sitemap?

Hi Handoko, yes this is planned. Can’t say when it will arrive though…

In the mean time, I wonder why bingbot would try to access /sitemap.xml.gz if it’s not a valid URL. Do you have that URL referenced in your robots.txt maybe? Or do you have a Bing Webmaster Tools account and it has been submitted there at some point?

I used other sitemap plugin, which can automatically generates compressed gzip sitemap Recently I found XML Sitemap & Google News Feeds plugin, which I think is better so I now using this now.

My site has Wordfence Security plugin installed. On the Pages Not Found section, I can see Bing bots frequently try to get the file:

Redmond, United States tried to access non-existent page https://graphicslearning.com/sitemap.xml.gz
2 days 10 hours ago IP: 65.55.213.247 [block] Hostname: msnbot-65-55-213-247.search.msn.com
Browser: msnbot version 2.0
msnbot/2.0b (+https://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm)

You could temporarily use a plugin like https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/redirection/ (or a .htaccess rule if you know how) to redirect /sitemap.xml.gz requests to /sitemap.xml

By the way, the /sitemap.xml output can be compressed too depending on your server setup and/or caching plugins…

Thanks for the suggestion. I will try it.

I notice you’re using a Litespeed server.

I’ve switched to Nginx for all my hosting stuff which does compression on the fly. I thought all responses by Litespeed would be zipped by default too but looking at the response headers for your /sitemap.xml I see no compression mentioned there.

Wow, that’s too technical for my little brain to digest. I will try the redirection trick.

It’s only Bing that won’t give up to fetch the gzip file. Google has already gave up. The gzip file is not exist since many months ago. Bing’s MSN bots seems to come back to get the file almost everyday.