Operations and monitoring
A practical operating guide for checking that crawler-readable HTML remains correct after deployments, DNS changes, content updates, and traffic growth.
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Your Website Is Up, but Is It Working? What Uptime Monitoring Misses
A website can return 200 OK while its content is blank, stale, or invisible to crawlers. Learn what website health monitoring should check beyond uptime.
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Prerendering cache freshness: when rendered pages update
Understand cache hits, fresh renders, stale fallback, URL refreshes, and when published content may need explicit invalidation.
Read articlePost-installation monitoring: keep crawler-readable HTML working
A practical monitoring schedule for DNS, HTTPS, crawler traffic, rendered content, cache behavior, usage, and important public routes.
Read articleHow to read Prerender Buddy render logs and cache headers
Interpret crawler URLs, user agents, cache states, render duration, status codes, timestamps, and managed-proxy response headers.
Read articleRoot vs www hostname mismatch: diagnose crawler routing after setup
One hostname can serve rendered HTML while the other still returns the original app shell, redirect error, or unprotected origin.
Read articleSocial preview bots and JavaScript websites: why shared links look wrong
Slack, messaging, social, and link-preview crawlers often rely heavily on initial metadata rather than waiting for a full JavaScript application.
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