Site Collection limit SharePoint 2016

In this post, we’ll compare SharePoint 2016 Site Collection limits with SharePoint 2013 and 2010.

We’ll also discuss the SharePoint Site 2016 Collection Limits by exploring the following:

You might also like to read SharePoint 2019 Limits.

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Site Collection Limit SharePoint 2016

In this section, we’ll explore the below SharePoint 2016 Site Collection Limits:

• Site collection size limit.
• Site collections per farm.
• Site collections per web application.
• Site collections per content database.
• Users in a site collection.
• Groups per site collection.
• Web site per site collection.

You might also like to read how to Get All Site Collections and SubSites Per Farm using PowerShell

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What’s the Site collection size limit in SharePoint 2016

The site collection size in SharePoint 2016 is the max size of the content database (200 GB),

In general, it’s strongly recommend limiting the size of site collections to 100 GB.

How many site collections per farm in SharePoint 2016?

The number of Site collections per farm in SharePoint 2016 is 750,000 site collections

• 500,000 Personal Sites, and
• 250,000 other sites per farm

How many site collections per web application in SharePoint 2016?

The number of site collections per web application in SharePoint 2016 is 250,000 site collections per web application.

How many site collections per content database in SharePoint 2016?

The number of site collections per content database in SharePoint 2016 is 10,000 site collections.

It’s strongly recommended to limit the number of site collections in a content database to 5,000. However, up to 10,000 site collections in a database are supported.

How many users per site collection in SharePoint 2016?

The number of users per site collection in SharePoint 2016 is 2,000,000 users.

How many groups per site collection in SharePoint 2016?

The number of Groups per site collection is 10,000 SharePoint Groups.

How many subsites per site collection in SharePoint 2016?

The number of sub sites e per site collection in SharePoint 2016 is 250,000 sub sites.

SharePoint Site Collection Limits Summary

The following table lists the recommended guidelines for Site Collection limit SharePoint 2016 compared to

• Site Collection limit SharePoint 2013,
• Site Collection limit SharePoint 2010,
• Site Collection limit SharePoint 2007.

You might also like to read PowerShell Script: SharePoint Farm Scan Report

Limits	SharePoint 2007	SharePoint 2010	SharePoint 2013	SharePoint 2016
Site collection size	The max size of the content database (In general, we strongly recommend limiting the size of site collections to 100 GB).	The max size of the content database (In general, we strongly recommend limiting the size of site collections to 100 GB).	The max size of the content database (In general, we strongly recommend limiting the size of site collections to 100 GB).	The max size of the content database (In general, we strongly recommend limiting the size of site collections to 100 GB).
Site collections per farm	x	x	750,000 (500,000 Personal Sites and 250,000 other sites per farm)	750,000 (500,000 Personal Sites and 250,000 other sites per farm)
Site collection per web application	150,000 per Web application	250,000 site collection per web application.	250,000 site collection per web application.	250,000 site collection per web application.
Site collection per content database	50,000 per content database	2,000 recommended   5,000 maximum	10,000 maximum (2,500 non-Personal site collections and 7,500 Personal Sites, or 10,000 Personal Sites alone)	10,000 (We strongly recommended limiting the number of site collections in a content database to 5,000. However, up to 10,000 site collections in a database are supported.)
Users in site collection	2,000,000 User	2,000,000 User	2,000,000 User	2,000,000 User
Groups per site collection	x	10,000 SharePoint Group	10,000 SharePoint Group	10,000 SharePoint Group
Web site per site collection	250,000 Web Site.	250,000 Web Site.	250,000 Web Site.	250,000 Web Site.
Device channels per publishing site collection	x	x	10 Device Channel	10 Device Channel

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Applies To

• SharePoint 2016.
• SharePoint 2013.
• SharePoint 2010.
• SharePoint 2007.

Download

Download PowerShell Script: SharePoint Farm Scan Report to get statistics and monitor the limits in your SharePoint farm.

You might also like to read

• SharePoint 2019 Limitations.
• SharePoint 2016 Content Database Limits.
• SharePoint 2016 Web Application Limits.
• SharePoint 2016 Application Pool Limits.
• SharePoint 2016 List and Library Limits.
• SharePoint Boundaries Vs Thresholds Vs Limits.

References

• Software boundaries and limits for SharePoint Servers 2016.

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