Glossary

What Is Client-Side Rendering (CSR)?

Client-side rendering is a JavaScript approach where the browser builds a page's content after loading, requiring crawlers to execute JavaScript to see it.

Pure CSR is the riskiest rendering approach for SEO-critical pages — hybrid approaches (SSR or static generation with client-side hydration) are the safer practical default.


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