diff --git a/components/DefaultLayout.tsx b/components/DefaultLayout.tsx
index 6b852eb380..6e17974b87 100644
--- a/components/DefaultLayout.tsx
+++ b/components/DefaultLayout.tsx
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ import { RestBanner } from 'src/rest/components/RestBanner'
 import { useMainContext } from 'components/context/MainContext'
 import { useTranslation } from 'src/languages/components/useTranslation'
 import { Breadcrumbs } from 'components/page-header/Breadcrumbs'
+import { useLanguages } from 'src/languages/components/LanguagesContext'
 
 const MINIMAL_RENDER = Boolean(JSON.parse(process.env.MINIMAL_RENDER || 'false'))
 
@@ -30,6 +31,7 @@ export const DefaultLayout = (props: Props) => {
   const { t } = useTranslation(['errors', 'meta', 'scroll_button'])
   const router = useRouter()
   const metaDescription = page.introPlainText ? page.introPlainText : t('default_description')
+  const { languages } = useLanguages()
 
   // This is only true when we do search indexing which renders every page
   // just to be able to `cheerio` load the main body (and the meta
@@ -66,16 +68,20 @@ export const DefaultLayout = (props: Props) => {
         {/* For Google and Bots */}
         <meta name="description" content={metaDescription} />
         {page.hidden && <meta name="robots" content="noindex" />}
-        {page.languageVariants.map((languageVariant) => {
-          return (
-            <link
-              key={languageVariant.href}
-              rel="alternate"
-              hrefLang={languageVariant.hreflang}
-              href={`https://docs.github.com${languageVariant.href}`}
-            />
-          )
-        })}
+        {Object.values(languages)
+          .filter((lang) => lang.code !== router.locale)
+          .map((variant) => {
+            return (
+              <link
+                key={variant.code}
+                rel="alternate"
+                hrefLang={variant.hreflang || variant.code}
+                href={`https://docs.github.com/${variant.code}${
+                  router.asPath === '/' ? '' : router.asPath
+                }`}
+              />
+            )
+          })}
 
         {/* For local site search indexing */}
         {page.topics.length > 0 && <meta name="keywords" content={page.topics.join(',')} />}
diff --git a/components/context/MainContext.tsx b/components/context/MainContext.tsx
index ab42f36698..23131b86a3 100644
--- a/components/context/MainContext.tsx
+++ b/components/context/MainContext.tsx
@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ type EnterpriseServerReleases = {
   nextDeprecationDate: string
   supported: Array<string>
 }
+
 export type MainContextT = {
   breadcrumbs: {
     product: BreadcrumbT
@@ -83,7 +84,6 @@ export type MainContextT = {
   page: {
     documentType: string
     type?: string
-    languageVariants: Array<{ name: string; code: string; hreflang: string; href: string }>
     topics: Array<string>
     title: string
     fullTitle?: string
@@ -154,7 +154,6 @@ export const getMainContext = async (req: any, res: any): Promise<MainContextT>
     currentPathWithoutLanguage: req.context.currentPathWithoutLanguage,
     relativePath: req.context.page?.relativePath,
     page: {
-      languageVariants: req.context.page.languageVariants,
       documentType,
       type: req.context.page.type || null,
       title: req.context.page.title,
diff --git a/lib/page.js b/lib/page.js
index 52d637b0db..43ea51b5fe 100644
--- a/lib/page.js
+++ b/lib/page.js
@@ -1,14 +1,11 @@
 import assert from 'assert'
 import path from 'path'
 import cheerio from 'cheerio'
-import patterns from './patterns.js'
 import getApplicableVersions from '#src/versions/lib/get-applicable-versions.js'
 import generateRedirectsForPermalinks from '#src/redirects/lib/permalinks.js'
 import getEnglishHeadings from './get-english-headings.js'
 import getTocItems from './get-toc-items.js'
-import pathUtils from './path-utils.js'
 import Permalink from './permalink.js'
-import languages from '#src/languages/lib/languages.js'
 import { renderContent } from '#src/content-render/index.js'
 import processLearningTracks from '#src/learning-track/lib/process-learning-tracks.js'
 import { productMap } from './all-products.js'
@@ -329,21 +326,6 @@ class Page {
   static getHomepage(requestPath) {
     return requestPath.replace(/\/articles.*/, '')
   }
-
-  // given a page path, return an array of objects containing hrefs
-  // for that page in all languages
-  static getLanguageVariants(href) {
-    const suffix = pathUtils.getPathWithoutLanguage(href)
-    return Object.values(languages).map(({ name, code, hreflang }) => {
-      // eslint-disable-line
-      return {
-        name,
-        code,
-        hreflang,
-        href: `/${code}${suffix}`.replace(patterns.trailingSlash, '$1'),
-      }
-    })
-  }
 }
 
 export default Page
diff --git a/middleware/render-page.js b/middleware/render-page.js
index cfb2768772..59827639b3 100644
--- a/middleware/render-page.js
+++ b/middleware/render-page.js
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ import { get } from 'lodash-es'
 import FailBot from '#src/observability/lib/failbot.js'
 import patterns from '../lib/patterns.js'
 import getMiniTocItems from '../lib/get-mini-toc-items.js'
-import Page from '../lib/page.js'
 import { pathLanguagePrefixed } from '#src/languages/lib/languages.js'
 import statsd from '#src/observability/lib/statsd.js'
 import { allVersions } from '#src/versions/lib/all-versions.js'
@@ -88,9 +87,6 @@ export default async function renderPage(req, res) {
     res.setHeader('Last-Modified', new Date(page.effectiveDate).toUTCString())
   }
 
-  // collect URLs for variants of this page in all languages
-  page.languageVariants = Page.getLanguageVariants(path)
-
   // Stop processing if the connection was already dropped
   if (isConnectionDropped(req, res)) return
 
diff --git a/src/frame/pages/app.tsx b/src/frame/pages/app.tsx
index 7899b19c09..96e1fff37d 100644
--- a/src/frame/pages/app.tsx
+++ b/src/frame/pages/app.tsx
@@ -125,6 +125,10 @@ MyApp.getInitialProps = async (appContext: AppContext) => {
         name: langObj.name,
         code: langObj.code,
       }
+      // The `hreflang` is used for the `<link rel="alternate">` tags.
+      if (langObj.hreflang && langObj.hreflang !== langObj.code) {
+        languagesContext.languages[langCode].hreflang = langObj.hreflang
+      }
       if (langObj.nativeName) {
         languagesContext.languages[langCode].nativeName = langObj.nativeName
       }
diff --git a/src/languages/components/LanguagesContext.tsx b/src/languages/components/LanguagesContext.tsx
index 6f15fd67ed..a90227f82b 100644
--- a/src/languages/components/LanguagesContext.tsx
+++ b/src/languages/components/LanguagesContext.tsx
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ export type LanguageItem = {
   name: string
   nativeName?: string
   code: string
+  hreflang?: string
 }
 
 export type LanguagesContextT = {
diff --git a/tests/unit/page.js b/tests/unit/page.js
index 8684c6c66a..d8f3347335 100644
--- a/tests/unit/page.js
+++ b/tests/unit/page.js
@@ -306,20 +306,6 @@ describe('Page class', () => {
     })
   })
 
-  describe('Page.getLanguageVariants()', () => {
-    it('returns an array of language variants of the given URL', () => {
-      const variants = Page.getLanguageVariants('/en')
-      expect(variants.every((variant) => variant.name)).toBe(true)
-      expect(variants.every((variant) => variant.code)).toBe(true)
-      expect(variants.every((variant) => variant.href)).toBe(true)
-    })
-
-    it('works for the homepage', () => {
-      const variants = Page.getLanguageVariants('/en')
-      expect(variants.find(({ code }) => code === 'en').href).toBe('/en')
-    })
-  })
-
   describe('page.versions frontmatter', () => {
     test('pages that use short names in versions frontmatter', async () => {
       const page = await Page.init({