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c2b4c0815c Unify caching story across the docs (#90149)
This PRs unifies the caching story across the docs, making Cache
Components the happy path, while still providing guidance to users in
the old model. However, instead of explaining the old model and its
caching layers, we've created a new guide focusing on what APIs to use
and when.

This follow-up PR aligns terminology across the docs:
https://github.com/vercel/next.js/pull/90589

## IA updates

Getting Started section: 

- Improves Getting Started progression:
- **Before:** CC → Fetching Data → Updating Data → Caching and
Revalidating (old and new model mixed)
- **After:** Fetching Data (Dynamic) → Mutating Data (Dynamic) → Caching
with CC (Prerendering) → Revalidating with CC.
- New: `caching.mdx` (CC-first)
   - Structure: 
      - Enabling Cache Components
      - Data vs UI-level caching
      - Working with request time APIs
      - Passing request values to cached functions
      - Working with non-deterministic operations
      - Working with synchronous operations
      - How rendering works (PPR and static shell story)
- New: `revalidating.mdx` (CC-first)
   - Explains how to use `cacheLife` and `cacheTag`

Guides Section: 

- New: `caching-and-revalidating.mdx` (Previous Model)
- For users who are not using CC, includes `fetch` options and route
segment config
- Moves route segment config options that don't apply to CC from API
reference to this guide (for easy archiving in the future).
- New: `migrating-to-cache-components.mdx` (WIP)
- Del: `caching.mdx` 😌 

## Terminology

We should remove caching layers from the docs. Users only needed to be
exposed to them when they were configured independently, but the new CC
APIs work across layers.

To make it easier to review this PR, I'm consolidating terminology and
fixing broken links in a new PR:
https://github.com/vercel/next.js/pull/90589

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Co-authored-by: Vercel <vercel[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Joseph <[email protected]>
2026-03-03 13:14:24 +00:00

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---
title: sitemap.xml
description: API Reference for the sitemap.xml file.
related:
title: Next Steps
description: Learn how to use the generateSitemaps function.
links:
- app/api-reference/functions/generate-sitemaps
---
`sitemap.(xml|js|ts)` is a special file that matches the [Sitemaps XML format](https://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.html) to help search engine crawlers index your site more efficiently.
### Sitemap files (.xml)
For smaller applications, you can create a `sitemap.xml` file and place it in the root of your `app` directory.
```xml filename="app/sitemap.xml"
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
<url>
<loc>https://acme.com</loc>
<lastmod>2023-04-06T15:02:24.021Z</lastmod>
<changefreq>yearly</changefreq>
<priority>1</priority>
</url>
<url>
<loc>https://acme.com/about</loc>
<lastmod>2023-04-06T15:02:24.021Z</lastmod>
<changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
<priority>0.8</priority>
</url>
<url>
<loc>https://acme.com/blog</loc>
<lastmod>2023-04-06T15:02:24.021Z</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>0.5</priority>
</url>
</urlset>
```
### Generating a sitemap using code (.js, .ts)
You can use the `sitemap.(js|ts)` file convention to programmatically **generate** a sitemap by exporting a default function that returns an array of URLs. If using TypeScript, a [`Sitemap`](#returns) type is available.
> **Good to know**: `sitemap.js` is a special Route Handler that is cached by default unless it uses a [Request-time API](/docs/app/glossary#request-time-apis) or [dynamic config](/docs/app/guides/caching-without-cache-components#dynamic) option.
```ts filename="app/sitemap.ts" switcher
import type { MetadataRoute } from 'next'
export default function sitemap(): MetadataRoute.Sitemap {
return [
{
url: 'https://acme.com',
lastModified: new Date(),
changeFrequency: 'yearly',
priority: 1,
},
{
url: 'https://acme.com/about',
lastModified: new Date(),
changeFrequency: 'monthly',
priority: 0.8,
},
{
url: 'https://acme.com/blog',
lastModified: new Date(),
changeFrequency: 'weekly',
priority: 0.5,
},
]
}
```
```js filename="app/sitemap.js" switcher
export default function sitemap() {
return [
{
url: 'https://acme.com',
lastModified: new Date(),
changeFrequency: 'yearly',
priority: 1,
},
{
url: 'https://acme.com/about',
lastModified: new Date(),
changeFrequency: 'monthly',
priority: 0.8,
},
{
url: 'https://acme.com/blog',
lastModified: new Date(),
changeFrequency: 'weekly',
priority: 0.5,
},
]
}
```
Output:
```xml filename="acme.com/sitemap.xml"
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
<url>
<loc>https://acme.com</loc>
<lastmod>2023-04-06T15:02:24.021Z</lastmod>
<changefreq>yearly</changefreq>
<priority>1</priority>
</url>
<url>
<loc>https://acme.com/about</loc>
<lastmod>2023-04-06T15:02:24.021Z</lastmod>
<changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
<priority>0.8</priority>
</url>
<url>
<loc>https://acme.com/blog</loc>
<lastmod>2023-04-06T15:02:24.021Z</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>0.5</priority>
</url>
</urlset>
```
### Image Sitemaps
You can use `images` property to create image sitemaps. Learn more details in the [Google Developer Docs](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/sitemaps/image-sitemaps).
```ts filename="app/sitemap.ts" switcher
import type { MetadataRoute } from 'next'
export default function sitemap(): MetadataRoute.Sitemap {
return [
{
url: 'https://example.com',
lastModified: '2021-01-01',
changeFrequency: 'weekly',
priority: 0.5,
images: ['https://example.com/image.jpg'],
},
]
}
```
Output:
```xml filename="acme.com/sitemap.xml"
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset
xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"
xmlns:image="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-image/1.1"
>
<url>
<loc>https://example.com</loc>
<image:image>
<image:loc>https://example.com/image.jpg</image:loc>
</image:image>
<lastmod>2021-01-01</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>0.5</priority>
</url>
</urlset>
```
### Video Sitemaps
You can use `videos` property to create video sitemaps. Learn more details in the [Google Developer Docs](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/sitemaps/video-sitemaps).
```ts filename="app/sitemap.ts" switcher
import type { MetadataRoute } from 'next'
export default function sitemap(): MetadataRoute.Sitemap {
return [
{
url: 'https://example.com',
lastModified: '2021-01-01',
changeFrequency: 'weekly',
priority: 0.5,
videos: [
{
title: 'example',
thumbnail_loc: 'https://example.com/image.jpg',
description: 'this is the description',
},
],
},
]
}
```
Output:
```xml filename="acme.com/sitemap.xml"
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset
xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"
xmlns:video="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-video/1.1"
>
<url>
<loc>https://example.com</loc>
<video:video>
<video:title>example</video:title>
<video:thumbnail_loc>https://example.com/image.jpg</video:thumbnail_loc>
<video:description>this is the description</video:description>
</video:video>
<lastmod>2021-01-01</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>0.5</priority>
</url>
</urlset>
```
### Generate a localized Sitemap
```ts filename="app/sitemap.ts" switcher
import type { MetadataRoute } from 'next'
export default function sitemap(): MetadataRoute.Sitemap {
return [
{
url: 'https://acme.com',
lastModified: new Date(),
alternates: {
languages: {
es: 'https://acme.com/es',
de: 'https://acme.com/de',
},
},
},
{
url: 'https://acme.com/about',
lastModified: new Date(),
alternates: {
languages: {
es: 'https://acme.com/es/about',
de: 'https://acme.com/de/about',
},
},
},
{
url: 'https://acme.com/blog',
lastModified: new Date(),
alternates: {
languages: {
es: 'https://acme.com/es/blog',
de: 'https://acme.com/de/blog',
},
},
},
]
}
```
```js filename="app/sitemap.js" switcher
export default function sitemap() {
return [
{
url: 'https://acme.com',
lastModified: new Date(),
alternates: {
languages: {
es: 'https://acme.com/es',
de: 'https://acme.com/de',
},
},
},
{
url: 'https://acme.com/about',
lastModified: new Date(),
alternates: {
languages: {
es: 'https://acme.com/es/about',
de: 'https://acme.com/de/about',
},
},
},
{
url: 'https://acme.com/blog',
lastModified: new Date(),
alternates: {
languages: {
es: 'https://acme.com/es/blog',
de: 'https://acme.com/de/blog',
},
},
},
]
}
```
Output:
```xml filename="acme.com/sitemap.xml"
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9" xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<url>
<loc>https://acme.com</loc>
<xhtml:link
rel="alternate"
hreflang="es"
href="https://acme.com/es"/>
<xhtml:link
rel="alternate"
hreflang="de"
href="https://acme.com/de"/>
<lastmod>2023-04-06T15:02:24.021Z</lastmod>
</url>
<url>
<loc>https://acme.com/about</loc>
<xhtml:link
rel="alternate"
hreflang="es"
href="https://acme.com/es/about"/>
<xhtml:link
rel="alternate"
hreflang="de"
href="https://acme.com/de/about"/>
<lastmod>2023-04-06T15:02:24.021Z</lastmod>
</url>
<url>
<loc>https://acme.com/blog</loc>
<xhtml:link
rel="alternate"
hreflang="es"
href="https://acme.com/es/blog"/>
<xhtml:link
rel="alternate"
hreflang="de"
href="https://acme.com/de/blog"/>
<lastmod>2023-04-06T15:02:24.021Z</lastmod>
</url>
</urlset>
```
### Generating multiple sitemaps
While a single sitemap will work for most applications. For large web applications, you may need to split a sitemap into multiple files.
There are two ways you can create multiple sitemaps:
- By nesting `sitemap.(xml|js|ts)` inside multiple route segments e.g. `app/sitemap.xml` and `app/products/sitemap.xml`.
- By using the [`generateSitemaps`](/docs/app/api-reference/functions/generate-sitemaps) function.
For example, to split a sitemap using `generateSitemaps`, return an array of objects with the sitemap `id`. Then, use the `id` to generate the unique sitemaps.
```ts filename="app/product/sitemap.ts" switcher
import type { MetadataRoute } from 'next'
import { BASE_URL } from '@/app/lib/constants'
export async function generateSitemaps() {
// Fetch the total number of products and calculate the number of sitemaps needed
return [{ id: 0 }, { id: 1 }, { id: 2 }, { id: 3 }]
}
export default async function sitemap(props: {
id: Promise<string>
}): Promise<MetadataRoute.Sitemap> {
const id = await props.id
// Google's limit is 50,000 URLs per sitemap
const start = id * 50000
const end = start + 50000
const products = await getProducts(
`SELECT id, date FROM products WHERE id BETWEEN ${start} AND ${end}`
)
return products.map((product) => ({
url: `${BASE_URL}/product/${product.id}`,
lastModified: product.date,
}))
}
```
```js filename="app/product/sitemap.js" switcher
import { BASE_URL } from '@/app/lib/constants'
export async function generateSitemaps() {
// Fetch the total number of products and calculate the number of sitemaps needed
return [{ id: 0 }, { id: 1 }, { id: 2 }, { id: 3 }]
}
export default async function sitemap(props) {
const id = await props.id
// Google's limit is 50,000 URLs per sitemap
const start = id * 50000
const end = start + 50000
const products = await getProducts(
`SELECT id, date FROM products WHERE id BETWEEN ${start} AND ${end}`
)
return products.map((product) => ({
url: `${BASE_URL}/product/${product.id}`,
lastModified: product.date,
}))
}
```
Your generated sitemaps will be available at `/.../sitemap/[id]`. For example, `/product/sitemap/1.xml`.
See the [`generateSitemaps` API reference](/docs/app/api-reference/functions/generate-sitemaps) for more information.
## Returns
The default function exported from `sitemap.(xml|ts|js)` should return an array of objects with the following properties:
```tsx
type Sitemap = Array<{
url: string
lastModified?: string | Date
changeFrequency?:
| 'always'
| 'hourly'
| 'daily'
| 'weekly'
| 'monthly'
| 'yearly'
| 'never'
priority?: number
alternates?: {
languages?: Languages<string>
}
}>
```
## Version History
| Version | Changes |
| ---------- | ------------------------------------------------------------ |
| `v16.0.0` | `id` is now a promise that resolves to a `string`. |
| `v14.2.0` | Add localizations support. |
| `v13.4.14` | Add `changeFrequency` and `priority` attributes to sitemaps. |
| `v13.3.0` | `sitemap` introduced. |