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The blog is alive: rendered on the server, not in the browser

Alex Silva2 min read

If you are reading this sentence in view-source, the migration worked.

Why server rendering matters here

The old store served an empty div and let the browser fill it. Crawlers that do not execute JavaScript saw nothing at all.

Sources

  1. Understand JavaScript SEO basicsGoogle Search Central
  2. Rendering on the Webweb.dev
  3. Next.js App Router: Server ComponentsVercel

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Does Google run JavaScript?
It can, but rendering is queued and unreliable. Server-rendered HTML is indexed immediately.