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Google have run headless chromium for many years now, there are no extra bonus points for serving straight HTML to them. The only thing you might get pinged on
by mdhb 3y ago
Google have run headless chromium for many years now, there are no extra bonus points for serving straight HTML to them.
The only thing you might get pinged on is if you have crappy core web vitals scores as a result of the client side rendering.
- gitgud 3y agoHow does google decide to use the headless chromium? If there’s no metadata in the raw HTML?
- afavour 3y ago> there are no extra bonus points for serving straight HTML to them. There is, in the sense that every site gets a CPU budget allocated for indexing. SSR means less of that budget gets used per page.
- mdhb 3y agoI don’t think this CPU budget actually exists… it’s certainly never been publicly mentioned as far as I can tell. I think it’s another one of those half truths floating around the SEO world. Is there some concept of a budget regarding how many pages they should index on your website? Yes. Is it the same thing as CPU budget, no. Does it impact what position you rank in absolutely not.
- j45 3y agoMost websites, especially templates are extremely heavy in their assets for first time load. The vitals bvetween the average client side compared to the average server side can be staggering. For example, if you take a website that is using client side, on a headless cms or something vs Wordpress, wordpress has many, many plugins that obsess on optimizing the assets and delivery of the file beyond most client side implementations. I love building myself a client side site, it feel so fast, until the need to communicate better or at scale increases and it is a reminder why the website should just be something that is good at being a website.