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Get Super Speedy Sitemaps →Comparing XML Sitemap and Google News with Super Speedy Sitemaps? This page breaks down the key differences and similarities so you can find the best fit for your WordPress or WooCommerce store.
Overview of XML Sitemap and Google News
XML Sitemap & Google News is a dedicated sitemap plugin that generates XML sitemaps for posts, pages, and custom post types, with additional support for Google News sitemaps. It is a focused, lightweight sitemap tool with a long WordPress.org track record.
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How Super Speedy Sitemaps differs from XML Sitemap and Google News
All plugins from Super Speedy Plugins share a SQL-first architecture and an uncompromising focus on performance — and Super Speedy Sitemaps is no different. Here is what sets it apart:
Super Speedy Sitemaps is a lightning fast sitemap index with Google News and Multisite support.
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Forked from the “Better WordPress Google XML Sitemaps” plugin.
XML Sitemap & Google News generates sitemaps using standard WordPress query functions, which can run into memory limits and slow generation on very large catalogues because they load full post objects through the WordPress object layer. Super Speedy Sitemaps uses direct SQL-level generation to produce sitemaps for enormous catalogues without that object-loading overhead.
How to choose between XML Sitemap and Google News and Super Speedy Sitemaps?
XML Sitemap & Google News is a reliable standard sitemap tool, but for stores with very large catalogues, SQL-first generation without full post object loading is significantly more efficient. Super Speedy Sitemaps handles that scale, tested against one-million products, with a free trial available.
Super Speedy Sitemaps compared versus other products
What's new in Super Speedy Sitemaps?
1.08 (21st October 2025)
- Fixed localisation warning https://github.com/superspeedyplugins/issue-tracker/issues/292
- Fixed deprecation warning from nullable params in constructor
1.07 (1st April 2025)
- Removed weird extra pagination from taxonomy sitemaps
- Fixed deprecated warnings coming from 2 files
- Added automatic permalinks flush and object cache flush when sitemap created
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