Minutes to Seconds: Fast publishing in Sitecore XM Cloud

Published on : November 7, 2025

I feel like why Sitecore XMC publishing is taking time to deflect in the web. Sometimes developer get confused really my changes are working? I hope Sitecore will fix this soon. Are you facing the same? Here is the better solution for you,

 Enable Sitecore_ExperienceEdge_dot_WorkerStoreEnabled

How to enable it?

  1. Navigate your project in the Sitecore Cloud Deploy App
  2. Select the environment where you want to enable the feature
  3. Go to Variable section
  4. Click on ‘Create variable’ button.
  5. Enter the following and save the variable
    • Name : Sitecore_ExperienceEdge_dot_WorkerStoreEnabled
    • Value : TRUE
  6. Redeploy the environment (Note: Changes won’t affected until you deploy)
  7. Post deployment –Go to content editor and Republish all the sites. [Only one time]

How to test/validate?

  • Check language fallback scenarios – This is where you can see the more improvement
  • Incremental publishing – Update few items and publish
  • Link consistency – Check internal links are resolving correctly
  • GraphQL queries – Verify all queries return expected data
  • Multi language content – Test all language version

Performance metrics to monitor:

  1. Publishing time reduction (expect ~14% improvement for incremental publishing)
  2. Edge response time
  3. GraphQL query performance

Best practice: Try enable in Development à Staging à Production

Rollback procedure:

If you encounter any issue or reset back to v1 publishing method, do the following,

Set Sitecore_ExperienceEdge_dot_WorkerStoreEnabled = FALSE then redeploy.

May your content always reach the edge at lightning speed, Thank you!

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