GLOSSARY

Server-Side Rendering

IN ONE SENTENCE

Server-side rendering means the page content is produced on the server and returned as HTML, rather than assembled by scripts in the browser.

Server-side rendering means the page content is produced on the server and returned as HTML, rather than assembled by scripts in the browser.

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In detail

What a crawler reads is the HTML you return. If key content depends on client-side rendering, crawlers that do not execute scripts receive a shell. The same applies to structured data: it must appear in server-rendered HTML, because anything injected by a front-end script is invisible to them.

Updated 2026-08-06