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while google can find your homepage anyway (it’s usually the most linked page), leaving it out of your sitemap is kinda shooting yourself in the foot
the main issue is you’re missing out on crawl efficiency signals. if your homepage isn’t listed, google doesn’t get that priority signal, and you lose a chance to communicate your site structure. plus, if you ever update your homepage frequently, google won’t know through the sitemap
definitely worth configuring your cms to include it or manually adding it if you can. it’s a small thing but compounds over time 🙂
