I really like this tool due to the support and expertise that I received while being a customer of the product. The support desk agents have always gone above and beyond providing me with insights on SEO and helping me debug my code. I have been a customer for 6+ years and the product is simple to use. I would highly recommend anyone using a single-page application to use prerender.

I have been so blown away by my experience with prerender I have nothing negative to say.

I was struggling to get a decent Pagespeed Insights (PSI) score for my React website https://squaredeal.tax/. Even in 2021, search engines and their crawlers are not up to speed with modern websites developed with JS frameworks/libraries. (Angular, React, Vue etc). People suggested Server Side Rendering (SSR). But, my development was done. I didn't want to redo everything. While looking for a suitable solution, I came across prerender.io. I gave it a try, since it didn't require any development efforts. Setup was easy. After configuring Cloudflare workers (since my site is behind Cloudflare), I was very pleased with the PSI score! It was green!

* Easy setup * Free plan to get started and try out the software * View of cached pages * Crawler visit logs * Cloudflare workers These are some of the features I keep using often.

Documentation has scope for improvement.

The platform itself is really simple. Not elegant. But simple. A bit too simple. A bit more control from within their dashboard would have bene nice. Also, the ability to select and delete more than 1 page of cached pages at a time would be really helpful. Our initial implementation cached all pages, including individual user-account pages. So the pages cached grew tremendously and needlessly. A filter on their end to filter out all pages behind a subdirectory would have been easy, but we ended up having to handle this on our end using our own developer. In the end, Prerender.io is a quick solution, but not an optimal one.

Prerender.io was a quick solution for when Bing.com was unable to index Single Page Applications. As a small website, Prerender.io was a reasonable solution.

As our website evolved, traffic grew, and technology inevitably changed, the value proposition of Prerender.io became obsolete for us since we could build an in-house solution for much less than the cost paid to Prerender.io, as well as target the page caching much more efficiently.

As a startup and having a SPA website it was not easy for us to have high rankings by search engines. Our most important task was visibility by search engines. All I want was better search engine rating because they couldn't render the site correctly for a long period time and we accomplished this with help of Prerender. Now we have high visibility and speed score.

I have been using the product for 2 years without any problem. Integration was quite easy. Recently I moved into a paid account. They have affordable and good planned package types which we like.

I don't remember any bug or feature at the moment.

We were frustrated to learn that client-side rendering in React effectively neutralised any ability to utilise accurate on-site analytics, or get our pages indexed in SERPs. Outside of rebuilding with Next.js, I found Prerender - a very specific tool to solve a very specific problem. And solve it, it did.

If anything, and I'm sure there's probably a solution, but I found that Prerender sometimes cached multiples of the same root URL, but with random query strings suffixed.