---
title: Sitemap
description: A sitemap index and paged child sitemaps for storefront content managed in Shopify.
url: "https://shop-docs.labs.vercel.dev/docs/anatomy/sitemap"
docs_index: /llms.txt
lastUpdated: 2026-09-14
type: guide
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> For an index of all documentation, see [/llms.txt](/llms.txt).

The storefront publishes `/sitemap.xml` as the single discovery URL for products, collections, Shopify Pages, blogs, articles, and configured policies. Crawl guidance points search engines to this index.

## What the sitemap includes

| URL                            | Contents                                  |
| ------------------------------ | ----------------------------------------- |
| `/sitemap.xml`                 | Index of every child sitemap              |
| `/sitemap/static.xml`          | Home page and configured Shopify policies |
| `/sitemap/products-{n}.xml`    | Up to 250 products per page               |
| `/sitemap/collections-{n}.xml` | Up to 250 collections per page            |
| `/sitemap/pages-{n}.xml`       | Up to 250 Shopify Pages per page          |
| `/sitemap/blogs-{n}.xml`       | Up to 250 Shopify blogs per page          |
| `/sitemap/articles-{n}.xml`    | Up to 250 Shopify articles per page       |

Shopify determines how many pages each content type needs. The storefront lists every page in the index, so crawlers need only `/sitemap.xml`.

## Freshness limits

Product and collection webhooks refresh affected sitemap entries. Creating or deleting those resources also refreshes the relevant sitemap listing. See [Webhooks](/docs/anatomy/webhooks).

The template's webhook handler does not refresh Pages, blogs, articles, or policies. Their sitemap entries can remain cached until revalidation. If a publishing change must appear immediately, refresh the sitemap as well as the page content.

## What’s next

Shopify's sitemap API also supports metaobjects, but the template does not include them. Add that resource type only when metaobjects have public storefront URLs that search engines should discover. Stores with rich media may also add image or video sitemap data for content that search engines cannot discover reliably from the page itself.

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For a semantic overview of all documentation, see [/sitemap.md](/sitemap.md)

For an index of all available documentation, see [/llms.txt](/llms.txt)

For agent-facing discovery, including API and MCP surfaces, see [/agents.md](/agents.md)