7 min
Which crawlers Base44 pre-renders for, and which it skips
We tested 33 user agents against live Base44 pages. Googlebot, Bingbot, GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot get renders. Bravebot, Meta and Search Console's tester don't.
Every guide
11 posts across 2 topics. New here? Start with the overview marked in each topic.
10 min
A Cloudflare Worker pre-rendering proxy for a Base44 domain
How a Cloudflare Worker can route crawlers to a pre-renderer and visitors to your Base44 app: the code, the canonical and redirect fixes, and what to test before switching DNS.
9 min
Base44 record pages (?id=): titles, sitemaps, renders
Base44 product, listing and post pages at URLs like /Product?id=123 share one title and never appear in the sitemap. How to fix titles, list them, and get them rendered.
11 min
How to prerender a Base44 app: every option compared
Compare the ways to prerender a Base44 app: Encited, Prerender.io, a self-hosted Puppeteer proxy and exporting to server rendering, and why warming doesn't work.
8 min
Pre-rendering vs server rendering for a Base44 app
When pre-rendering is enough for a Base44 app and when it's worth exporting to a server-rendered framework like Next.js or TanStack Start. Costs, effort and SEO.
8 min
Base44's seo-snapshot block: what it is, how to improve it
Every Base44 page ships a hidden seo-snapshot div that crawlers read when no render is ready. What it contains, where its text comes from, and how to make it better.
8 min
How to check what crawlers get from your Base44 app
Commands to test your Base44 pages as Googlebot, GPTBot and other crawlers: detect the seo-snapshot fallback, check renders, record pages, the sitemap and link previews.
9 min
How Base44 pre-rendering works: a render cache and a fallback
Base44 serves crawlers pre-rendered pages from a cache, by user agent, and a hidden summary when a page isn't cached. What we measured, what fills the cache, and why it hurts SEO.
11 min
Pre-rendering Base44 apps: the complete guide
Does Base44 pre-render pages for Google and AI crawlers? Only from a cache. How Base44 pre-rendering works, where it leaves gaps, and every way to prerender a Base44 app.
6 min
Why Search Console's live test misreads Base44 pages
On Base44, Search Console's Test live URL and the Rich Results Test get an auto-generated summary instead of your page. Why it happens and how to see what Googlebot got.
7 min
Can you warm Base44's pre-render cache? We tested it
Requesting Base44 pages with a crawler user agent doesn't make Base44 render them. Our cache tests, a script to monitor which pages serve the summary, and the fixes that work.