Server-side rendering
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description: Crawlers, social scrapers, and AI agents index the HTML your server returns. Render your primary content and metadata server-side — via SSR, static generation, or prerendering — so it is in the initial response, not assembled later by client-side JavaScript.
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author: Web Specification Studio
publisher: Web Specification Studio
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date modified: 2026-06-08T00:00:00.000Z
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