Prerender.io <> WeWeb Dynamic Pages Pre-Rendering for SEO?

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I just ran across this tool - https://prerender.io/

Could it potentially help address the SEO challenges associated with WeWeb’s client-side rendered dynamic pages, making WeWeb a more viable option for a marketplace site?

I know WeWeb has a cloudflare workaround for dynamic pages, but that seems to only populate meta data - page title, meta description, opengraph info, etc.

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Not possible on WeWeb hosted plans, at least as far as I know. We spoke to their Sales last year, it requires WeWeb’s collaboration to implement it. It would be possible with self-hosting, as you’re free to do whatever in that case.

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Yeah since SSR isn’t on WeWeb’s roadmap this year, this seems like it could be an easier way for WeWeb to offer pre-rendering functionality by offering an integration/plugin for prerender.io.

Prerender does have a Cloudflare worker integration - I wonder if this would work on a non-selfhosted plan without needing WeWeb’s collaboration?
https://docs.prerender.io/docs/cloudflare-integration-v2

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This would only work if you self-host. We pre-render static pages and send them automatically to CloudFront, therefore it wouldn’t be possible to have this in our architecture. We can change things like page titles and descriptions for different pages using Cloudflare workers, but not create a full snapshot of each page, including all the content. Also, as far as I know, we also have no plans to offer a prerender.io integration/plugin for now.

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Hi @ryanev, as I mentioned in my email to you, prerender.io might actually work. I don’t know it, never tried it but just looking at their website it seems it works exactly the same way as what we have with CloudFlare. It caches your website and then injects the metadata into the pages. For something like this it doesn’t matter where the website is hosted as the tool can grab it for caching from wherever and then just manipulate the cached version.

But, take this with a grain of salt, maybe I am missing the details. I suggest you try and see how it goes.

Regarding the other topics in this chain:

  • we have no plans to add SSR to WeWeb
  • we have no plans to add the prerender.io integration
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Thanks Dan and Slavo!

I’ll give it a try on weweb hosting first and if that doesn’t work, go the self-hosted route

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Hi there, do you have some feedbacks about your prerender.io integration so far ?

Thanks :slight_smile:

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