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## Sitemap timestamps

seo

Your sitemap entries now include a `<lastmod>` timestamp that's invisible to readers and used exclusively by search engines to prioritize crawling recently updated pages. Timestamps update only when a page's content actually changes — trivial formatting differences like whitespace or capitalization are ignored. This follows [Google's sitemap best practices](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/sitemaps/build-sitemap).

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