(Maybe it's affected by the memory limit. Needs to be researched first.)
Current flow is: discover all sitemaps first, ping all pages afterwards.
Update flow to have sitemaps discovery in parallel to HTTP requests to have results sooner.
Edit:
well, it happens even now, but sitemap discovery works not so fast and takes quite a lot of memory, so less memory is spent on http requests.
Example run: https://console.apify.com/organization/ZscMwFR5H7eCtWtyh/actors/rGeTNESChDZ65EbYh/runs/3ojy96GAEjvOQDwZU#output