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Why JavaScript Apps Struggle with SEO

Modern web apps built with React, Vue, or AI builders render content dynamically in the browser. When a search engine bot visits your site, here’s what happens:
This means your carefully crafted content, meta tags, and product pages may never get indexed by Google or other search engines. Hado SEO implements prerendering at the edge. We serve different content based on who’s visiting:
This is the approach recommended by Google for JavaScript-heavy applications.

Bot Detection: Search Engines, AI Crawlers & Social Media

Our edge network analyzes incoming requests to identify different types of visitors:
  • Googlebot - Google’s main crawler
  • Bingbot - Microsoft Bing
  • DuckDuckBot - DuckDuckGo
  • YandexBot - Yandex search
  • Baiduspider - Baidu (China)
  • Applebot - Apple search
  • Amazonbot - Amazon/Alexa
  • Slurp - Yahoo search
  • GPTBot - OpenAI’s crawler for ChatGPT
  • OAI-SearchBot - OpenAI Search
  • ChatGPT-User - ChatGPT browsing
  • ClaudeBot - Anthropic’s crawler
  • PerplexityBot - Perplexity AI search
  • Google-Extended - Google Gemini/Bard training
  • Applebot-Extended - Apple AI features
  • Bytespider - ByteDance/TikTok AI
  • YouBot - You.com AI search
  • CCBot - Common Crawl
  • Cohere - Cohere AI
  • Diffbot - Knowledge graph extraction
  • Twitterbot - X/Twitter link previews
  • facebookexternalhit - Facebook/Meta sharing
  • Meta-ExternalAgent - Meta AI
  • LinkedInBot - LinkedIn sharing
  • Slackbot - Slack link unfurling
  • Discordbot - Discord embeds
  • WhatsApp - WhatsApp link previews
  • TelegramBot - Telegram link previews
  • Pinterest - Pinterest pins
  • Redditbot - Reddit link previews
  • AhrefsBot - Ahrefs crawler
  • SemrushBot - Semrush crawler
  • MJ12bot - Majestic SEO
  • DotBot - Moz/SEOmoz
  • Rogerbot - Moz crawler
  • Screaming Frog - SEO spider
  • DataForSEOBot - DataForSEO crawler
Don’t see a bot you need? Contact support and we’ll add it.

What Gets Pre-rendered for Search Engines

When a bot visits your site through Hado SEO, we render and serve:

Smart Caching & Automatic Page Refresh

Pre-rendered pages are cached at our global edge network for fast delivery. Hado SEO automatically monitors your sitemap and intelligently decides what to render:

Smart Refresh Cycle

Each cycle runs a smart diff against your sitemap to minimize unnecessary work: Pages with a higher priority value in your sitemap are refreshed more frequently during the stale rotation, so your most important pages stay freshest.

Full Manual Refresh

You can trigger a full manual recrawl once per month from Domain Settings in your dashboard. This is designed for:
  • Full site redesigns
  • Major content or layout updates
  • Significant structural changes
Manual recrawls run at the highest priority and process your entire sitemap.

Bulk Refresh

Need to refresh specific pages without a full recrawl? Use Bulk Refresh from your dashboard to re-render up to 100 pages at a time. This is ideal for:
  • Updating a batch of product pages after a price change
  • Refreshing blog posts after edits
  • Re-rendering key landing pages after A/B test changes

How Traffic Flows Through Hado SEO

How it works:
  1. All traffic flows through Hado’s edge network via DNS
  2. Bot detection analyzes the User-Agent header
  3. Search bots get pre-rendered, cached HTML
  4. Human visitors pass through with zero added latency

Why Choose Prerendering over SSR

No Latency for Users

Human visitors bypass prerendering entirely. Your app loads exactly as before with zero added latency.

Global Edge Network

Our infrastructure spans multiple global points of presence for sub-250ms response times worldwide.

Always Fresh Content

Smart refresh cycle detects new and updated pages automatically. Bulk refresh and monthly manual recrawl available when you need them.

Complete Control

Serves static HTML to search engines and AI crawlers to boost technical on-page SEO

Hado SEO vs Prerender.io vs SSR Migration

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