gatsby-plugin-sitemap URL priorities

[karland]

Summary

I am not sure where the best / default place is to enter priorities for the sitemap.xml URLs.
gatsby-plugin-sitemap itself does not provide for an option to set priorities. The gatsby-plugin-sitemap documentation reads

The defaultOptions here can be overridden.

but I think it is not kind of obvious how the change for the individual URL priorities is supposed to be done.

For the time being I am using the solution below, which is based on the current source, but it does not really look convincing.

If this is how it is supposed to be done, I am happy to PR this to the gatsby-plugin-sitemap docs.

Relevant information

gatsby-config.js:

    // ...
    {
      resolve: `gatsby-plugin-sitemap`,
      options: {
        serialize: ({ site, allSitePage }) =>
          allSitePage.edges.map(edge => {
            let path = edge.node.path
            let priority = 0.5
            if (path.match(/products/)) {
              priority = 1.0
            } else if (path.match(/production/)) {
              priority = 0.9
            } else if (path.match(/about/)) {
              priority = 0.8
            } else if (path.match(/contact/)) {
              priority = 0.7
            } else if (path.match(/blog/)) {
              priority = 0.4
            } else if (path.match(/imprint/)) {
              priority = 0.3
            } else if (path.match(/data-protection/)) {
              priority = 0.2
            }
            console.log("priority: ", priority.toFixed(1), "    path: ", path)
            return {
              url: site.siteMetadata.siteUrl + edge.node.path,
              changefreq: `monthly`,
              priority
            }
          })
      }
    },
    // ...

[RobinHerzog]

FYI, Google don't care about priority in sitemap

[m-allanson]

Hey @karland, adding this to the docs seems like a good first step? A PR would be very welcome!

If there's a lot of demand for handling priorities within the plugin itself, we could update the plugin at a later time.

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