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Noah
Noah
Jan 19, 2025, 11:22 AM
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Mohamed Natheem
Mohamed Natheem
Jan 13, 2025, 8:48 AM
Anyone have an experience with ? I have a client who’s site is running back end on Shopify and front end on react. Almost the entire site is client side rendered. We want them to move away from CSR to SSR. But being a small team it is a hard task to implement. So thought about as an alternative. How does it work? And anyone implemented it and had success with it?
My ultimate goal is to at least SSR the critical components like metas, canonical, links, and content.
Arnout Hellemans
Arnout Hellemans
Jan 13, 2025, 9:12 AM
Yes, needs a bit of tweaking but a fast solution, acts as a kind of CDN that will prerender the pages and serve the fully rendered pages. It can become expensive for sites and triggering new pre-renders can be cumbersome as well. I would advise as using it as a quick fix then start fixing it yourself using ssr.
Jared McKiernan
Jared McKiernan
Jan 13, 2025, 9:29 AM
I had a good experience with them (prior to their acquisition, the customer service was amazing). Definitely important to view it as a short-medium term solution while you build real SSR.
Jimmy Lange
Jimmy Lange
Jan 13, 2025, 9:30 AM
Completely agree with the above advice. Would also just caution to look at any 3rd party tools you currently have as could change their deliveries.
There are a bunch of ways to set up Prerender, but if you were setting it up for bots only (bots get the SSR cached version of the page at the level, users get the CSR 'normal' version to save bandwidth and put the processing on the user), you just want to make sure any 3rd party tag is firing on the user-agents, devices, etc that you intend them to.
This is also why doing SSR in-house becomes a lot easier. is the cheapest/easiest solution I can think of to pick up the ball and run with SSR, but if your in-house team is doing it, you don't have to worry about weird nuances at the level (i.e. figuring out the costs with cache windows and how long to cache assets for an e-com, things like that) and you'll be sitting better for the future IMO.
Mika Lepistö
Mika Lepistö
Jan 13, 2025, 9:39 AM
Agree with the above. However, do pay attention to errors. For some reason they started serving Googlebot 429s (or 500s I forget) on a project and tanked the indexing until I figured out what was causing it. In that case it was implemented via cloudflare workers.
More variables = more failure points.
Mohamed Natheem
Mohamed Natheem
Jan 13, 2025, 9:57 AM
Thanks everyone for your inputs. It’s really helpful. I’ll read more about it.
Ian Cappelletti
Ian Cappelletti
Jan 13, 2025, 7:20 PM
mixed results in my experience. has a bit of a handicap in complex builds like Mika and Jimmy spoke to
Híres Norbert
Híres Norbert
Jan 14, 2025, 2:54 AM
We bought a site after a redesign that tanked organic traffic. They switched to client side rendering everything which was previously SSR and they supported this setup with . My first idea was to do a big rewrite and SSR everything but there were other high impact improvements we could make. So I decided to keep and do other changes. Long story short we recovered the lost traffic while still having the CSR + setup. I am big on server side rendering but prerendering can be an impactful step between the two.

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