Do sitemap.json has benefits over sitemap.xml?

[Sulphur]

Do sitemap.json has benefits over sitemap.xml? If yes, then what?

 

[Ashk881]

Do sitemap.json has benefits over sitemap.xml? If yes, then what?

Sitemap.json doesn't exist. The sitemaps protocol only defines 2 formats: XML and RSS feeds. If you use a "sitemap.json" file it is non-standard and a crawler will simply ignore it or parse it incorrectly.

Read more about the formats here:
https://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.html

 

[migao]

Sitemap.json doesn't exist. The https://sitemaps.orgonly defines 2 formats: XML and RSS feeds. If you use a "sitemap.json" file it is non-standard and a crawler will simply ignore it or parse it incorrectly.

Read more about the formats here:
https://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.html

Yes, only XML and RSS format...
In addition to the XML sitemap, you may also want to consider having an html sitemap (the html sitemap is a tree of links within your website). The reason you want to do this is that the number one way that Google likes to find a page is to click on a link to go to it. It is also very useful for indexing orphan pages.

 

[jennykumar]

for search bots to crawl your web pages, there can only be sitemap.xml, .html and .txt versions.