diff --git a/Packages/Infrastructure/README.md b/Packages/Infrastructure/README.md
index 2181cf2..8fd2d8d 100644
--- a/Packages/Infrastructure/README.md
+++ b/Packages/Infrastructure/README.md
@@ -5,11 +5,11 @@ The shared [Hummingbird](https://github.com/hummingbird-project/hummingbird) too
 | Role | Types |
 | --- | --- |
 | Routing | `RouterController`, `RouteCollectionBuilder`, the `addController` extension on `RouterMethods` |
-| Middlewares | `SecurityHeadersMiddleware`, `HTTPSRedirectMiddleware`, `TrailingSlashRedirectMiddleware`, `VaryMiddleware`, `RateLimitMiddleware`, `LocalizationMiddleware`, `NotFoundMiddleware` |
+| Middlewares | `SecurityHeadersMiddleware`, `HTTPSRedirectMiddleware`, `TrailingSlashRedirectMiddleware`, `VaryMiddleware`, `RateLimitMiddleware`, `LocalizationMiddleware` (negotiating from a `lang` query parameter, then a leading path segment, then `Accept-Language`), `NotFoundMiddleware` |
 | Pages and assets | `Page`, `Asset`, `AssetExtension`, `FingerprintAssets` |
 | Link previews | `SocialCard`, its `Image` and `Style`, and the `Tag` meta tags it derives |
 | Structured data | `StructuredData`, the `Node`, `Property`, and `Value` types of its schema.org graph, the open `Name` and `Kind` vocabularies, and the site-wide initializer building the `Organization`/`WebSite` pair |
-| Analytics | `Analytics`, the `Event`s a page reports (with `tagging()` to apply one to a tag), the tracker script `Attribute`s it derives, and the `origin` its preconnect hint targets |
+| Analytics | `Analytics`, the `Event`s a page reports (with `tagging()` to apply one to a tag), the tracker script `Attribute`s it derives, the optional session `recorder` script paired with it, and the `origin` its preconnect hint targets |
 | Responses | `CachedHTMLResponse`, `LocalizedHTMLCollectionResponse` |
 | Contexts | `LocalizedRequestContext` |
 | Constants | The `HTTPField.Name` header names, `Int.RateLimit` limits, and `String.Security` header values the middlewares default to |
diff --git a/Services/Website/README.md b/Services/Website/README.md
index b7faa7c..57c1076 100644
--- a/Services/Website/README.md
+++ b/Services/Website/README.md
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ The **Site** public website service — a [Hummingbird](https://github.com/hummi
 
 ## Overview
 The service:
-- Serves the landing page at `GET /` (rendered once per supported language with [Elementary](https://github.com/elementary-swift/elementary) and cached).
-- Negotiates each request's language from its `Accept-Language` header against the languages in the `WebsiteLibrary` String Catalog, falling back to the default (`en`); pages are served from the per-language cache with `Content-Language` and `Vary: Accept-Language` headers.
+- Serves the landing page at `GET /` (rendered once per supported language with [Elementary](https://github.com/elementary-swift/elementary) and cached), plus one prefixed route per non-default catalog language — `GET /nl` and so on (see [Language editions](#language-editions)).
+- Negotiates each request's language from the `lang` query parameter, the leading path segment, then its `Accept-Language` header, against the languages in the `WebsiteLibrary` String Catalog, falling back to the default (`en`); pages are served from the per-language cache with `Content-Language` and `Vary: Accept-Language` headers.
 - Builds every page on the shared `Page` scaffolding from `Infrastructure`, which assembles the document head around the page's own markup: the viewport declaration, the optional `description` summary and `rel="canonical"` link, the Open Graph / Twitter link-preview tags, the JSON-LD structured-data script, and the optional analytics tracker (see [Page metadata](#page-metadata)).
 - Answers a liveness check at `GET /health` with a static JSON payload, and a readiness check at `GET /health/ready` that reports whether the database is reachable (`200` ready / `503` unavailable).
 - Answers `HEAD` on every `GET` route: the router is built with `.autoGenerateHeadEndpoints`, so uptime monitors and crawlers probing with `HEAD` get the route's status and headers instead of a `404`.
@@ -43,10 +43,10 @@ LogRequestsMiddleware
       → TrailingSlashRedirectMiddleware  (301 to the path without a trailing slash)
         → VaryMiddleware                 (marks every response as varying on Accept-Encoding)
           → ResponseCompressionMiddleware (gzip/deflate above the size threshold)
-            → LocalizationMiddleware      (negotiates the request's language)
+            → LocalizationMiddleware      (negotiates the language: ?lang=, path prefix, then Accept-Language)
               → NotFoundMiddleware        (renders the localized not-found page on .notFound)
                 → FileMiddleware          (serves Resources/Static)
-RootController                            (GET / → landing page)
+RootController                            (GET / → landing page; GET /<lang> → its other editions)
 HealthController                          (GET /health → liveness, GET /health/ready → readiness)
 ```
 
@@ -55,20 +55,38 @@ The router is created with `.autoGenerateHeadEndpoints`, so each of those `GET`
 ### Page metadata
 Each page conforms to `Infrastructure`'s `Page` protocol and supplies only its `title`, `content`, `stylesheets`, and `scripts`; the protocol assembles the document around them and renders the head in a fixed order: the viewport declaration, the `analytics` origin preconnect hint, the `summary`, the `canonicalURL` link, the `socialCard` tags, the `structuredData` script, the `analytics` tracker script, then the page `metadata` and the stylesheet links. The body is the content followed by the script tags.
 
-Four of those are page-authored, optional, and **omitted by default** — the reference site leaves them unset, so a generated site fills in what it needs by overriding them on `IndexPage` (or on the shared `Page+Defaults` extension, for site-wide values):
+Four of those are page-authored and optional. `IndexPage` supplies `canonicalURL`; the other three are **omitted by default** — the reference site leaves them unset, so a generated site fills in what it needs by overriding them on `IndexPage` (or on the shared `Page+Defaults` extension, for site-wide values):
 | Property | Renders as | Notes |
 | --- | --- | --- |
 | `summary` | `<meta name="description">` | The page's one-line description. |
-| `canonicalURL` | `<link rel="canonical">` | Absolute URL. |
-| `socialCard` | Open Graph + Twitter `<meta>` tags | A `SocialCard` — title, summary, URL, site name, locale, share image. Scrapers require absolute URLs, so the page composes them from its own origin. |
+| `canonicalURL` | `<link rel="canonical">` | Absolute URL. `IndexPage` derives it from `site.origin` and the page's own language; an unset origin omits it (see [Language editions](#language-editions)). |
+| `socialCard` | Open Graph + Twitter `<meta>` tags | A `SocialCard` — title, summary, URL, site name, locale, share image. Scrapers require absolute URLs, so the page composes them from its own origin; `Page+Defaults` supplies the locale as `ogLocale`. |
 | `structuredData` | `<script type="application/ld+json">` | A `StructuredData` graph of schema.org nodes; `StructuredData(name:url:logo:profiles:)` builds the site-wide `Organization` + `WebSite` pair. The payload is an inert data block, so the `Content-Security-Policy` does not apply to it. |
 
 The fifth, `analytics`, is *configuration*-authored rather than page-authored: the executable builds an `Analytics` from the `analytics.*` keys and hands it to `RootController` and `NotFoundMiddleware`, which pass it to both pages. It renders as a `<link rel="preconnect">` plus a deferred `<script>` carrying the [Umami](https://umami.is) `data-` attributes, and — unlike the structured data — it *is* executable, so the `Content-Security-Policy` must allow its origin. It is empty by default; see [Analytics](#analytics) for how to turn it on.
 
-What the pages *do* ship is in `Page+Defaults` (`Sources/Library/Internal/Extensions`), shared by every page: the document `lang`, the `preloadedFonts` links, the favicon / SVG icon / apple-touch-icon / web-manifest links, and the two `theme-color` metas. Those live in `siteMetadata`, which `metadata` returns unchanged — a page that adds head tags of its own composes `siteMetadata` rather than replacing it.
+What the pages *do* ship is in `Page+Defaults` (`Sources/Library/Internal/Extensions`), shared by every page: the document `lang`, the `ogLocale` a social card would carry, the `preloadedFonts` links, the favicon / SVG icon / apple-touch-icon / web-manifest links, and the two `theme-color` metas. The last group lives in `siteMetadata`, which `metadata` returns unchanged — a page that adds head tags of its own composes `siteMetadata` rather than replacing it.
+
+`ogLocale` renders Open Graph's `language_TERRITORY` form by looking the page's `lang` up in the `ogLocales` map, which ships one pairing: `en` → `en_US`. A site serving a language in a territory of its own repoints or extends the map (`en_NL`, `nl_NL`, …); a language with no entry stays a bare code, which scrapers also accept. Nothing reads it until a page supplies a `socialCard`.
 
 `preloadedFonts` is empty until the site ships fonts. Listing one emits `<link rel="preload" as="font" crossorigin>` at `/font/<name>.woff2`, deliberately unversioned: a preload URL must match the stylesheet's `@font-face` source exactly, or the browser fetches the font twice. List only the faces the stylesheets actually render — a subset gated by a `unicode-range` no page reaches would add a download that never otherwise happens.
 
+### Language editions
+The `WebsiteLibrary` String Catalog is the single source of truth for the languages the site serves: add a localization and it appears, with no code change. `Language` (`Sources/Library/Internal/Types`) reads that list and derives each language's URLs from it.
+
+The catalog's source language is the **default** and owns the site's bare paths; every other language answers under a prefix of its own. The root collapses onto the prefix alone, so a Dutch home is `/nl`, not `/nl/` — the spelling `TrailingSlashRedirectMiddleware` redirects away from anyway:
+
+| Language | Landing page | A page at `/privacy` |
+| --- | --- | --- |
+| `en` (default) | `/` | `/privacy` |
+| `nl` | `/nl` | `/nl/privacy` |
+
+`RootController` registers the bare route plus one per non-default language. A prefixed route answers in *its* language for every visitor and every crawler — the path is the language choice, so the negotiated context language is ignored, which is what lets a search engine index it as that edition. The template ships an English-only catalog, so it registers the bare route alone.
+
+Given a `site.origin`, each page then emits the `hreflang` alternates tying its editions together — one per language plus an `x-default` pointing at the default language's edition, whose bare URL negotiates the language and so is the right landing for everyone unmatched. A single-language site emits none: a set naming one edition tells a search engine nothing it cannot already see. `Page+Defaults`' `languageAlternates(origin:path:languages:)` takes the language set, so a page translated into only some of them narrows it rather than advertising an edition that does not exist.
+
+Visitors switch language two ways, both handled by `LocalizationMiddleware` ahead of the routes: a `?lang=` query parameter (what a language switcher links to) and the leading path segment. Either beats `Accept-Language`; a value naming no supported language is ignored. The path segment matters beyond the routed pages — it is what makes an *unrouted* path under a language's prefix answer its not-found page in that language.
+
 ## Configuration
 Configuration is read through [swift-configuration](https://github.com/apple/swift-configuration), **highest precedence first**:
 1. Command-line arguments (e.g. `--http-host 0.0.0.0`)
@@ -134,9 +152,9 @@ every `GET`/`HEAD` whose path ends in a slash is answered with a `301` to the fo
 ### Site
 | Config key | Environment variable | Default | Description |
 | --- | --- | --- | --- |
-| `site.origin` | `SITE_ORIGIN` | _(set by bootstrap)_ | The public origin the site is served at (scheme and host, no trailing slash). The HTTPS redirect points at it, and absolute links derive from it. |
+| `site.origin` | `SITE_ORIGIN` | _(set by bootstrap)_ | The public origin the site is served at (scheme and host, no trailing slash). The HTTPS redirect points at it, and the pages' `rel="canonical"` links and `hreflang` alternates derive from it. |
 
-Bootstrap writes the canonical URL it prompts for here, leaving it empty for the placeholder. An empty or non-HTTPS origin disables the [HTTPS redirect](#https-redirect), which `https.trustForwardedProto` must enable besides — a `301` is cached for a long time, so it is never issued at a host nobody named.
+Bootstrap writes the canonical URL it prompts for here, leaving it empty for the placeholder. An empty or non-HTTPS origin disables the [HTTPS redirect](#https-redirect), which `https.trustForwardedProto` must enable besides — a `301` is cached for a long time, so it is never issued at a host nobody named. An empty origin also leaves the pages without canonical URLs and language alternates, rather than building either against an empty host.
 
 ### Logging
 | Config key | Environment variable | Default | Description |
diff --git a/Services/Website/Sources/App/Extensions/App+Build.swift b/Services/Website/Sources/App/Extensions/App+Build.swift
index 5659f00..c60adef 100644
--- a/Services/Website/Sources/App/Extensions/App+Build.swift
+++ b/Services/Website/Sources/App/Extensions/App+Build.swift
@@ -57,6 +57,9 @@ func application(
             httpsRedirect: reader.httpsRedirect,
             rateLimit: reader.rateLimit,
             securityHeaders: reader.securityHeaders,
+            // An unset origin leaves the pages without canonical URLs and language alternates, rather than
+            // building both against an empty host.
+            siteOrigin: reader.siteOrigin.isEmpty ? nil : reader.siteOrigin,
             logLevel: reader.logLevel,
             probe: Probe(fluent: fluent)
         ),
@@ -141,9 +144,10 @@ private func logger(
 /// HTTPS-redirect middleware that bounces requests forwarded over plain HTTP to the canonical origin, the trailing-slash redirect middleware that
 /// collapses each path onto its canonical form, the vary middleware that marks every response as varying on `Accept-Encoding`, the response-compression middleware that compresses responses
 /// larger than `minimumResponseSizeToCompress` when the client advertises support, the localization middleware that negotiates the request's
-/// language from its `Accept-Language` header, the not-found middleware that serves the not-found page, and the static file middleware that serves the
+/// language from its `Accept-Language` header (honouring the `lang` query override and the language a leading path segment names), the
+/// not-found middleware that serves the not-found page, and the static file middleware that serves the
 /// contents of `staticFilesPath` (tagging responses with the given `cacheControl` directives), then adds the `RootController` routes that
-/// render the landing page, and the `HealthController` routes that serve the health check.
+/// render the landing page — one per language the String Catalog serves — and the `HealthController` routes that serve the health check.
 ///
 /// The security-headers middleware sits just inside request logging so it covers every response that reaches a client — the landing page, the compressed
 /// responses, the rendered not-found page, and the served static files. The HTTPS redirect sits directly beneath it, so a redirect carries the security
@@ -158,6 +162,7 @@ private func logger(
 ///   - httpsRedirect: the origin plain-HTTP requests are redirected to, and whether the forwarded-protocol header is trusted.
 ///   - rateLimit: the rate limit configuration, currently applied to no route.
 ///   - securityHeaders: the security headers applied to every response.
+///   - siteOrigin: the public origin the pages derive their canonical URLs and language alternates from, or `nil` to omit them.
 ///   - logLevel: the level the request-logging middleware logs at.
 ///   - probe: the probe consulted by the `HealthController` readiness route.
 /// - Returns: the configured router.
@@ -170,6 +175,7 @@ private func router(
     httpsRedirect: HTTPSRedirectMiddleware<AppRequestContext>.Configuration,
     rateLimit: RateLimitMiddleware<AppRequestContext>.Configuration,
     securityHeaders: SecurityHeadersMiddleware<AppRequestContext>.Configuration,
+    siteOrigin: String?,
     logLevel: Logger.Level,
     probe: Probe
 ) -> Router<AppRequestContext> {
@@ -207,6 +213,7 @@ private func router(
     router.addController {
         RootController<AppRequestContext>(
             assetVersion: assetVersion,
+            siteOrigin: siteOrigin,
             analytics: analytics
         )
         HealthController<AppRequestContext>(
diff --git a/Services/Website/Sources/Library/Internal/Extensions/Page+Defaults.swift b/Services/Website/Sources/Library/Internal/Extensions/Page+Defaults.swift
index 2b60080..7ce8886 100644
--- a/Services/Website/Sources/Library/Internal/Extensions/Page+Defaults.swift
+++ b/Services/Website/Sources/Library/Internal/Extensions/Page+Defaults.swift
@@ -16,6 +16,14 @@ extension Page {
         []
     }
 
+    /// The territories paired with the site's languages, in Open Graph's `language_TERRITORY` form.
+    ///
+    /// English ships as `en_US`, Open Graph's conventional default. A site serving a language in a territory of its own repoints or extends the
+    /// map (`en_NL`, `nl_NL`, …); a language with no entry stays a bare code, which scrapers also accept.
+    static var ogLocales: [String: String] {
+        ["en": "en_US"]
+    }
+
     // MARK: Computed
 
     /// The document language, derived from the page's locale and falling back to the default language.
@@ -24,11 +32,65 @@ extension Page {
             ?? LanguageList().default
     }
 
+    /// The locale of the page's social card, in Open Graph's `language_TERRITORY` form where ``ogLocales`` pairs the page's language with a
+    /// territory; a language it does not name stays a bare code, which scrapers also accept.
+    ///
+    /// Keyed off ``lang``, so the card's locale and the document's `lang` attribute never describe the document differently. Nothing reads it
+    /// until a page supplies a `socialCard` — like ``preloadedFonts``, it is a hook a generated site fills in.
+    var ogLocale: String {
+        Self.ogLocales[lang] ?? lang
+    }
+
     /// The site-wide head metadata; a page that adds tags of its own composes ``siteMetadata`` rather than replacing it.
     var metadata: some HTML {
         siteMetadata
     }
 
+    /// The `hreflang` alternates tying the page's language editions together, or nothing without an origin — the annotations require absolute URLs.
+    ///
+    /// Nothing is emitted for a single-language site either: a set naming one edition tells a search engine nothing it cannot already see.
+    /// `x-default` points at the catalog's default language, whose bare URL negotiates the language and so is the right landing for everyone
+    /// unmatched — it stays the catalog's default even when `languages` names a subset.
+    /// - Parameters:
+    ///   - origin: the site's public origin, or `nil` to emit nothing.
+    ///   - path: the page's bare (default-language) path.
+    ///   - languages: the languages the page is published in; every catalog language by default. A page translated into only some of them
+    ///     narrows the set, so it never advertises an edition that does not exist.
+    /// - Returns: one `alternate` link per language, followed by the `x-default` link.
+    @HTMLBuilder
+    func languageAlternates(
+        origin: String?,
+        path: String,
+        languages: [Language] = Language.all
+    ) -> some HTML {
+        if let origin, languages.count > 1 {
+            ForEach(languages) { language in
+                link(
+                    .rel("alternate"),
+                    .custom(
+                        name: "hreflang",
+                        value: language.identifier
+                    ),
+                    .href(language.url(
+                        origin: origin,
+                        path: path
+                    ))
+                )
+            }
+            link(
+                .rel("alternate"),
+                .custom(
+                    name: "hreflang",
+                    value: "x-default"
+                ),
+                .href(Language.default.url(
+                    origin: origin,
+                    path: path
+                ))
+            )
+        }
+    }
+
     /// The ``preloadedFonts`` links, then the icon, manifest, and theme colour metadata shared by every page of the website.
     ///
     /// A preload URL must match the stylesheet's `@font-face` source exactly — unversioned, with `crossorigin` — or the browser fetches the
diff --git a/Services/Website/Sources/Library/Internal/Pages/IndexPage.swift b/Services/Website/Sources/Library/Internal/Pages/IndexPage.swift
index 920167c..ee61949 100644
--- a/Services/Website/Sources/Library/Internal/Pages/IndexPage.swift
+++ b/Services/Website/Sources/Library/Internal/Pages/IndexPage.swift
@@ -17,6 +17,9 @@ struct IndexPage {
     /// The locale the page content is localized to.
     let locale: Locale
 
+    /// The public origin the page derives its canonical URL and language alternates from, or `nil` to omit them.
+    let siteOrigin: String?
+
     /// Resolves the page's text from the bundled String Catalog for the page's ``locale``.
     private let localize: Localize
 
@@ -26,15 +29,18 @@ struct IndexPage {
     /// - Parameters:
     ///   - locale: the locale the page content is localized to.
     ///   - assetVersion: the version token appended to the page's asset URLs, or `nil` (the default) to leave them unversioned.
+    ///   - siteOrigin: the public origin the page derives its canonical URL and language alternates from, or `nil` (the default) to omit them.
     ///   - analytics: the analytics tracker embedded in the document head, or `nil` (the default) to omit it.
     init(
         locale: Locale,
         assetVersion: String? = nil,
+        siteOrigin: String? = nil,
         analytics: Analytics? = nil
     ) {
         self.analytics = analytics
         self.assetVersion = assetVersion
         self.locale = locale
+        self.siteOrigin = siteOrigin
         self.localize = .init(bundle: .module)
     }
 
@@ -44,6 +50,36 @@ struct IndexPage {
 
 extension IndexPage: Page {
 
+    // MARK: Constants
+
+    /// The path the page is served at; ``RootController`` registers its route against it, and the page builds its canonical URL from it.
+    static let path = "/"
+
+    // MARK: Computed
+
+    /// The canonical URL of the page's edition in its language, or `nil` when the origin is unknown.
+    ///
+    /// The origin alone for the default language, since canonical URLs carry no trailing slash — `TrailingSlashRedirectMiddleware` enforces
+    /// that on every path but the root, which has nothing to strip.
+    var canonicalURL: String? {
+        siteOrigin.map {
+            Language(of: locale).url(
+                origin: $0,
+                path: Self.path
+            )
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// The site-wide metadata, preceded by the `hreflang` alternates tying the page's language editions together.
+    @HTMLBuilder
+    var metadata: some HTML {
+        languageAlternates(
+            origin: siteOrigin,
+            path: Self.path
+        )
+        siteMetadata
+    }
+
     // MARK: Properties
 
     var content: some HTML {
diff --git a/Services/Website/Sources/Library/Internal/Types/Language.swift b/Services/Website/Sources/Library/Internal/Types/Language.swift
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..079383a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Services/Website/Sources/Library/Internal/Types/Language.swift
@@ -0,0 +1,100 @@
+import Foundation
+import Localization
+
+/// A language the website serves, as its String Catalog names it.
+///
+/// The catalog stays the single source of truth: a locale appears in ``all`` once it has a localization, with no code change. The default
+/// language owns the site's bare paths; every other language answers under a prefix of its own, so each edition has a stable URL a search
+/// engine can index and the pages' `hreflang` alternates have somewhere to point.
+struct Language: Hashable, Sendable {
+
+    // MARK: Properties
+
+    /// The language's identifier, as the String Catalog names it (e.g. `en`, `nl`).
+    let identifier: String
+
+    // MARK: Initializers
+
+    /// Creates the language with the given identifier, whether or not the catalog serves it.
+    ///
+    /// Unvalidated so the URL rules can be exercised — and a language pinned — without the catalog shipping that localization first.
+    /// - Parameter identifier: the language's identifier.
+    init(identifier: String) {
+        self.identifier = identifier
+    }
+
+    /// Creates the language a locale reads as, falling back to ``default`` for anything the catalog does not serve.
+    /// - Parameter locale: the locale a page is localized to.
+    init(of locale: Locale) {
+        guard
+            let identifier = locale.language.languageCode?.identifier,
+            Self.all.contains(Language(identifier: identifier))
+        else {
+            self = .default
+
+            return
+        }
+
+        self.identifier = identifier
+    }
+
+    // MARK: Computed
+
+    /// Whether the language owns the site's unprefixed paths.
+    var isDefault: Bool {
+        self == .default
+    }
+
+    /// The prefix of the language's URLs: empty for the default language, which owns the bare paths.
+    var pathPrefix: String {
+        isDefault ? "" : "/\(identifier)"
+    }
+
+    // MARK: Methods
+
+    /// The language's URL path for a page's bare path; the root collapses onto the prefix alone, so a Dutch home is `/nl`, not `/nl/`.
+    /// - Parameter barePath: the page's unprefixed path, as ``RootController`` registers it for the default language.
+    /// - Returns: the path this language's edition of the page is served at.
+    func path(_ barePath: String) -> String {
+        guard barePath == "/" else {
+            return pathPrefix + barePath
+        }
+
+        return pathPrefix.isEmpty ? barePath : pathPrefix
+    }
+
+    /// The absolute URL of the page's edition in this language; the default language's root stays the bare origin, keeping canonicals slashless.
+    /// - Parameters:
+    ///   - origin: the site's public origin, without a trailing slash.
+    ///   - barePath: the page's unprefixed path.
+    /// - Returns: the absolute URL this language's edition of the page is served at.
+    func url(
+        origin: String,
+        path barePath: String
+    ) -> String {
+        let path = path(barePath)
+
+        return path == "/" ? origin : origin + path
+    }
+
+}
+
+// MARK: - Catalog
+
+extension Language {
+
+    // MARK: Computed
+
+    /// Every language the module's String Catalog provides a localization for, in the catalog list's stable order.
+    static var all: [Language] {
+        LanguageList()
+            .all
+            .map(Language.init(identifier:))
+    }
+
+    /// The language served when no supported language matches a request: the catalog's source language.
+    static var `default`: Language {
+        .init(identifier: LanguageList().default)
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/Services/Website/Sources/Library/Public/Controllers/RootController.swift b/Services/Website/Sources/Library/Public/Controllers/RootController.swift
index 98b0559..c6dde33 100644
--- a/Services/Website/Sources/Library/Public/Controllers/RootController.swift
+++ b/Services/Website/Sources/Library/Public/Controllers/RootController.swift
@@ -25,15 +25,18 @@ public struct RootController<Context: LocalizedRequestContext> {
     /// Creates a root controller.
     /// - Parameters:
     ///   - assetVersion: the version token appended to the page's asset URLs, or `nil` (the default) to leave them unversioned.
+    ///   - siteOrigin: the public origin the page derives its canonical URL and language alternates from, or `nil` (the default) to omit them.
     ///   - analytics: the analytics tracker the landing page embeds, or `nil` (the default) to omit it.
     public init(
         assetVersion: String? = nil,
+        siteOrigin: String? = nil,
         analytics: Analytics? = nil
     ) {
         self.responses = .init(bundle: .module) {
             IndexPage(
                 locale: $0,
                 assetVersion: assetVersion,
+                siteOrigin: siteOrigin,
                 analytics: analytics
             )
         }
@@ -55,6 +58,15 @@ extension RootController: RouterController {
             use: index
         )
 
+        // Every non-default language answers under a prefix of its own, so the `hreflang` alternates the page advertises
+        // resolve and a crawler can index each edition at a stable URL. A single-language catalog adds none.
+        for language in Language.all where !language.isDefault {
+            routes.get(
+                .init(language.path(IndexPage.path)),
+                use: index(in: language)
+            )
+        }
+
         return routes
     }
 
@@ -84,6 +96,23 @@ private extension RootController {
         )
     }
 
+    /// Builds the handler serving the landing page in one fixed language, for the routes carrying the language in their path.
+    ///
+    /// The path *is* the language choice, so the negotiated context language is ignored: a prefixed URL answers in its language for every
+    /// visitor and every crawler alike, which is what lets a search engine index it as that edition.
+    /// - Parameter language: the language the route serves.
+    /// - Returns: the handler answering requests for that edition of the page.
+    func index(
+        in language: Language
+    ) -> @Sendable (Request, Context) -> Response {
+        { request, _ in
+            responses.response(
+                for: language.identifier,
+                request: request
+            )
+        }
+    }
+
 }
 
 // MARK: - Constants
@@ -91,7 +120,7 @@ private extension RootController {
 private extension RouterPath {
     /// A namespace for the ``RootController`` route paths.
     enum Root {
-        /// The path of the landing page.
-        static let index: RouterPath = "/"
+        /// The path of the landing page; the page builds its canonical URL from the same constant.
+        static let index: RouterPath = .init(IndexPage.path)
     }
 }
diff --git a/Services/Website/Tests/Library/Cases/Internal/Extensions/PageDefaultsTests.swift b/Services/Website/Tests/Library/Cases/Internal/Extensions/PageDefaultsTests.swift
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..bad8fb5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Services/Website/Tests/Library/Cases/Internal/Extensions/PageDefaultsTests.swift
@@ -0,0 +1,128 @@
+import Elementary
+import Foundation
+import Infrastructure
+import Testing
+
+@testable import WebsiteLibrary
+
+@Suite(
+    "Page+Defaults extension",
+    .tags(.extensionTests)
+)
+struct PageDefaultsTests {
+
+    // MARK: Computed tests
+
+    @Test
+    func `pairs english with a territory for its social card locale`() {
+        #expect(StubPage().ogLocale == "en_US")
+    }
+
+    /// Open Graph prefers `language_TERRITORY`, but a scraper accepts the bare code — better than pinning a territory the site never named.
+    @Test
+    func `leaves an unpaired language as a bare code`() {
+        #expect(StubPage(locale: .init(identifier: "nl")).ogLocale == "nl")
+    }
+
+    // MARK: Method tests
+
+    @Test
+    func `renders no language alternates without an origin`() {
+        let html = StubPage().languageAlternates(
+            origin: nil,
+            path: "/",
+            languages: Self.languages
+        ).render()
+
+        #expect(html.isEmpty)
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    func `renders no language alternates for a single language`() {
+        let html = StubPage().languageAlternates(
+            origin: "https://example.com",
+            path: "/",
+            languages: [.default]
+        ).render()
+
+        #expect(html.isEmpty)
+    }
+
+    /// The default language keeps the bare root; the prefixed edition collapses onto its prefix rather than carrying a trailing slash.
+    @Test
+    func `renders an alternate per language and an x-default at the root`() {
+        let html = StubPage().languageAlternates(
+            origin: "https://example.com",
+            path: "/",
+            languages: Self.languages
+        ).render()
+
+        #expect(html.contains(#"<link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="https://example.com">"#))
+        #expect(html.contains(#"<link rel="alternate" hreflang="nl" href="https://example.com/nl">"#))
+        #expect(html.contains(#"<link rel="alternate" hreflang="x-default" href="https://example.com">"#))
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    func `prefixes the alternates of a nested page`() {
+        let html = StubPage().languageAlternates(
+            origin: "https://example.com",
+            path: "/privacy",
+            languages: Self.languages
+        ).render()
+
+        #expect(html.contains(#"<link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="https://example.com/privacy">"#))
+        #expect(html.contains(#"<link rel="alternate" hreflang="nl" href="https://example.com/nl/privacy">"#))
+        #expect(html.contains(#"<link rel="alternate" hreflang="x-default" href="https://example.com/privacy">"#))
+    }
+
+}
+
+// MARK: - Helpers
+
+private extension PageDefaultsTests {
+
+    // MARK: Constants
+
+    /// A two-language set, standing in for the multi-language catalog the template itself does not ship.
+    static let languages: [Language] = [
+        .default,
+        .init(identifier: "nl")
+    ]
+
+    // MARK: Types
+
+    /// The barest ``Page`` conformance, so the shared defaults can be exercised without a real page's content.
+    struct StubPage: Page {
+
+        // MARK: Properties
+
+        let assetVersion: String? = nil
+        let locale: Locale
+
+        // MARK: Initializers
+
+        init(locale: Locale = .init(identifier: "en")) {
+            self.locale = locale
+        }
+
+        // MARK: Properties
+
+        var content: some HTML {
+            HTMLRaw("")
+        }
+
+        var scripts: [any Asset] {
+            []
+        }
+
+        var stylesheets: [any Asset] {
+            []
+        }
+
+        var title: String {
+            "Stub"
+        }
+
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/Services/Website/Tests/Library/Cases/Internal/Pages/IndexPageTests.swift b/Services/Website/Tests/Library/Cases/Internal/Pages/IndexPageTests.swift
index 8f81109..5e49a81 100644
--- a/Services/Website/Tests/Library/Cases/Internal/Pages/IndexPageTests.swift
+++ b/Services/Website/Tests/Library/Cases/Internal/Pages/IndexPageTests.swift
@@ -39,6 +39,32 @@ struct IndexPageTests {
         #expect(!IndexPage(locale: .init(identifier: "en")).render().contains(#"rel="preload""#))
     }
 
+    @Test
+    func `renders no canonical URL until an origin is given`() {
+        #expect(!IndexPage(locale: .init(identifier: "en")).render().contains(#"rel="canonical""#))
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    func `renders the canonical URL as the bare origin for the default language`() {
+        // The root is the one path with no trailing slash for `TrailingSlashRedirectMiddleware` to strip.
+        let html = IndexPage(
+            locale: .init(identifier: "en"),
+            siteOrigin: "https://example.com"
+        ).render()
+
+        #expect(html.contains(#"<link rel="canonical" href="https://example.com">"#))
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    func `renders no language alternates for a single-language catalog`() {
+        // The template serves one language, so a set naming one edition would tell a crawler nothing.
+        #expect(Language.all.count == 1)
+        #expect(!IndexPage(
+            locale: .init(identifier: "en"),
+            siteOrigin: "https://example.com"
+        ).render().contains("hreflang"))
+    }
+
     @Test
     func `renders versioned asset URLs when given a version`() {
         let html = IndexPage(
diff --git a/Services/Website/Tests/Library/Cases/Internal/Types/LanguageTests.swift b/Services/Website/Tests/Library/Cases/Internal/Types/LanguageTests.swift
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4453ab3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Services/Website/Tests/Library/Cases/Internal/Types/LanguageTests.swift
@@ -0,0 +1,109 @@
+import Foundation
+import Testing
+
+@testable import WebsiteLibrary
+
+@Suite(
+    "Language type",
+    .tags(.type)
+)
+struct LanguageTests {
+
+    // MARK: Catalog tests
+
+    /// The template ships an English-only catalog, so a site adding a language sees this pin fail and reviews the URL rules below.
+    @Test
+    func `derives its languages from the String Catalog`() {
+        #expect(Language.all == [Language(identifier: "en")])
+        #expect(Language.default == Language(identifier: "en"))
+    }
+
+    // MARK: Initializer tests
+
+    @Test
+    func `reads the language a locale names`() {
+        #expect(Language(of: .init(identifier: "en")).identifier == "en")
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    func `reads a regional locale as its primary language`() {
+        #expect(Language(of: .init(identifier: "en_GB")).identifier == "en")
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    func `falls back to the default for a language the catalog does not serve`() {
+        #expect(Language(of: .init(identifier: "fr")) == .default)
+    }
+
+    // MARK: Computed tests
+
+    @Test
+    func `owns the bare paths as the default language`() {
+        let language = Language.default
+
+        #expect(language.isDefault)
+        #expect(language.pathPrefix.isEmpty)
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    func `prefixes its paths as a non-default language`() {
+        let language = Language(identifier: "nl")
+
+        #expect(!language.isDefault)
+        #expect(language.pathPrefix == "/nl")
+    }
+
+    // MARK: Method tests
+
+    @Test(arguments: zip(
+        ["/", "/privacy"],
+        ["/", "/privacy"]
+    ))
+    func `path`(
+        forDefaultLanguageAt barePath: String,
+        expects path: String
+    ) {
+        #expect(Language.default.path(barePath) == path)
+    }
+
+    /// The root collapses onto the prefix alone: a trailing slash is the very spelling `TrailingSlashRedirectMiddleware` redirects away from.
+    @Test(arguments: zip(
+        ["/", "/privacy"],
+        ["/nl", "/nl/privacy"]
+    ))
+    func `path`(
+        forPrefixedLanguageAt barePath: String,
+        expects path: String
+    ) {
+        #expect(Language(identifier: "nl").path(barePath) == path)
+    }
+
+    @Test(arguments: zip(
+        ["/", "/privacy"],
+        ["https://example.com", "https://example.com/privacy"]
+    ))
+    func `url`(
+        forDefaultLanguageAt barePath: String,
+        expects url: String
+    ) {
+        #expect(Language.default.url(
+            origin: "https://example.com",
+            path: barePath
+        ) == url)
+    }
+
+    @Test(arguments: zip(
+        ["/", "/privacy"],
+        ["https://example.com/nl", "https://example.com/nl/privacy"]
+    ))
+    func `url`(
+        forPrefixedLanguageAt barePath: String,
+        expects url: String
+    ) {
+        #expect(Language(identifier: "nl").url(
+            origin: "https://example.com",
+            path: barePath
+        ) == url)
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/Services/Website/Tests/Library/Cases/Public/Controllers/RootControllerTests.swift b/Services/Website/Tests/Library/Cases/Public/Controllers/RootControllerTests.swift
index 1d0752f..a07cc2d 100644
--- a/Services/Website/Tests/Library/Cases/Public/Controllers/RootControllerTests.swift
+++ b/Services/Website/Tests/Library/Cases/Public/Controllers/RootControllerTests.swift
@@ -131,6 +131,37 @@ struct RootControllerTests {
         }
     }
 
+    @Test
+    func `serves the landing page with a canonical URL when an origin is configured`() async throws {
+        try await app(
+            siteOrigin: "https://example.com"
+        ).test(.router) { client in
+            try await client.execute(
+                uri: "/",
+                method: .get
+            ) { response in
+                #expect(String(buffer: response.body).contains(#"<link rel="canonical" href="https://example.com">"#))
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// The template's catalog serves one language, so the default owns every path and no prefixed route is registered.
+    @Test
+    func `registers no prefixed route for a single-language catalog`() async throws {
+        let prefixed = Language.all.filter { !$0.isDefault }
+
+        #expect(prefixed.isEmpty)
+
+        try await app.test(.router) { client in
+            try await client.execute(
+                uri: "/en",
+                method: .get
+            ) { response in
+                #expect(response.status == .notFound)
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
     @Test
     func `embeds no analytics tracker by default`() async throws {
         try await app.test(.router) { client in
@@ -176,13 +207,15 @@ private extension RootControllerTests {
     // MARK: Methods
 
     /// Builds an application whose root controller appends the given version token to the landing
-    /// page's asset URLs and embeds the given analytics tracker.
+    /// page's asset URLs, derives its absolute links from the given origin, and embeds the given analytics tracker.
     /// - Parameters:
     ///   - assetVersion: the version token appended to the page's asset URLs.
+    ///   - siteOrigin: the public origin the page derives its canonical URL and language alternates from, or `nil` (the default) to omit them.
     ///   - analytics: the analytics tracker the landing page embeds, or `nil` (the default) to omit it.
     /// - Returns: the configured application.
     func app(
         assetVersion: String? = nil,
+        siteOrigin: String? = nil,
         analytics: Analytics? = nil
     ) -> some ApplicationProtocol {
         let router = Router(context: WebsiteRequestContext.self)
@@ -193,6 +226,7 @@ private extension RootControllerTests {
 
         router.addRoutes(RootController<WebsiteRequestContext>(
             assetVersion: assetVersion,
+            siteOrigin: siteOrigin,
             analytics: analytics
         ).routes)
 
diff --git a/Services/Website/Tests/Library/Utils/Extensions/Tag+Constants.swift b/Services/Website/Tests/Library/Utils/Extensions/Tag+Constants.swift
index 7fe73f7..bccc43a 100644
--- a/Services/Website/Tests/Library/Utils/Extensions/Tag+Constants.swift
+++ b/Services/Website/Tests/Library/Utils/Extensions/Tag+Constants.swift
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ extension Tag {
     @Tag static var controller: Tag
     /// Tests exercising an enumeration of the Website library.
     @Tag static var enumeration: Tag
+    /// Tests exercising an extension of the Website library.
+    @Tag static var extensionTests: Tag
     /// Tests exercising a page of the Website library.
     @Tag static var page: Tag
     /// Tests exercising a type of the Website library.