SEO
XML Sitemap
A machine-readable list of all your site's URLs.
An XML sitemap is a structured list of every URL you want crawled, typically at /sitemap.xml. Each entry can include lastmod (when the page changed), changefreq, and priority. Search engines use it to discover pages they might otherwise miss.
Sitemaps matter most for large or new sites. Pages that aren't linked internally — fresh blog posts, deep product pages — get found faster when listed in the sitemap and submitted to Google Search Console.
Best practice: auto-generate from your data sources so every new page lands in the sitemap on deploy. Hard-coded XML files quickly drift out of date.
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