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Client Side Rendering

Sending a near-empty HTML shell and building the page in the browser with JavaScript.

In practice

Check what a crawler receives by viewing the raw source, not the inspector — the inspector shows the page after JavaScript has run.

Content that only exists after a user interaction or a data fetch may never be indexed at all.

Why it matters

Rendering is queued and budgeted, so client-rendered content is indexed later and less reliably than server-rendered HTML.

It also delays first paint on slow devices, which is where most mobile traffic actually sits.

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