Just for fun: How many pages is your website?

[neilspinney]

Just thought I would add this as I am currently creating a website (www.gparts.co.uk) and I am no where near finished and it currently stands on 5007 pages. The site take around 5-10 minutes to upload!

[Duncan Rounding]

...5007 pages. The site take around 5-10 minutes to upload!...

Presumably that's not a refresh otherwise you must have a veeeeeeery fast uplink speed to your server.

My client KJBeckett has close to 12000 pages now and still growing. The sitemap is completely unusable and crashes some browsers.

[neilspinney]

Yes you correct it is when we hit "publish to web" button, which normally means tea break!

Neil

[discountedheati]

16000 products, 4 hours on 10MB T1 line

[Mike Hughes]

Mike

[Paul Bulpit]

The sitemap is completely unusable and crashes some browsers.

I see what you mean, but notice that the Discount Heating site has split the html sitemap into 23 parts of 1,000 lines and lists 22,627 pages - presumably using some sort of generator.

[leehack]

To make it usable, just restrict the sectionlevel to which it can go, far better to have top couple of levels showing, than all but not usable.

[Duncan Rounding]

I agree 'parent' level sitemap makes more sense but I think an xml sitemap (albeit large) may be more appropriate in this case - users have standard navigation - they don't need a sitemap.

[AdieB]

What product import method

With so many products, which import method are you using, flat file or external database??

[Duncan Rounding]

You could use either method, however I suspect external linking may be very slow with a very large number of products. In my client's case we have set up semi-automated Excel workbooks that will create an hierarchical import file from the product data.