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Discussion on: Is Preact SEO friendly?

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mt3o

For some time, Google says they don't require SSR to crawl the site. What your saying is in general true, but it's false for Google.

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Benjamin Botwin

Oh wow, I didn’t know that.
Still I’d say it’s good practice to SSR pages that you want to be crawled. Not every uses (or can use) Google

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mt3o

Whether or not they can use Google, it's a separate topic. That fraction of users in China - I'd say you can ignore them, unless you are targeting just the Chinese market. However the other way around relationship remains true, even if you target Chinese market, pay attention to Google because they set the standards.
Today even legacy enterprise search engines like IDOL crawl js-heavy websites by changing few switches in the connector.

Regarding SSR, it gives more benefits to the user, not the search engine, as the user can get the contents faster, in 1 request, not multiple (one to get html, another to get js, and another to get the data).