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by platform 2356 days ago
Article mentions that server-side rendering was needed for SEO (Search engine optimization) and first-page load speed

(normally server-side rendering first-page loads faster because it is pre-rendered (and often cached) ).

>"... SEO was a very important consideration — we had full-time SEO consultants on staff — and we wanted to provide the best possible page load speed, so server-side rendering quickly became a requirement. ..."