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Rendering (CSR/SSR/ISR)

What does "rendering" mean?

Rendering describes how a web page is converted into finished HTML. Client-side rendering (CSR) builds content in the browser using JavaScript, fast for interactivity, but often problematic for SEO. Server-side rendering (SSR) delivers finished HTML from the server, good for SEO and initial load time. Incremental Static Regeneration (ISR) combines static pre-generation with selective updates. At Waterproof Web Wizard, we prefer SSR or hybrid approaches for marketing websites, pure CSR is reserved for applications and dashboards where crawlers don’t play a role.

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  • Client-Side Rendering
  • Server-Side Rendering
  • Incremental Static Regeneration
  • Static Site Generation
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