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by Joeri 621 days ago
I keep being puzzled by the SEO argument because google indexes client-side rendered pages just fine. Are there really SEO problems that are solved by SSR?

The initial page load argument is real, but is sort of a self-imposed problem because page loads would be fast if there wasn’t this massive bundle of JS code that’s 95% infrastructure and 5% actual site content.

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> I keep being puzzled by the SEO argument because google indexes client-side rendered pages just fine. Are there really SEO problems that are solved by SSR?

In theory, yes, in practice no. I've deployed SPAs for landing pages as well as server-side rendered or statically generated pages, and there was a huge difference in indexing and SEO between the two. Google can say they render client-side pages just the same, but I have not found that to be true at all.