
Hydrogen SEO: SSR vs Streaming for Headless Shopify
Hydrogen runs on React Router and Oxygen workers. The SSR vs streaming choice changes how Googlebot sees your product pages — here is how to choose.
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Hydrogen runs on React Router and Oxygen workers. The SSR vs streaming choice changes how Googlebot sees your product pages — here is how to choose.

Edge rendering is not a buzzword. On a headless commerce build, it is the difference between LCP under 1.5s and rankings that quietly slide for a year.

Stencil and Catalyst are both first-party BigCommerce storefronts. The SEO trade-offs between Handlebars and Next.js are not obvious — here is the head-to-head.

Catalyst is BigCommerce's Next.js reference storefront. Here is how to ship it without breaking the SEO that Stencil shipped by default.