Last reviewed by Netlify Support in July 2025 With the advent of modern web hosting aka the JAMStack , some robots and crawlers need “help” navigating client-side links. This problem first presented itself initially when navigation was implemented using Javascript instead of HTML, but these days the…

Hey there, @david_opbase :wave: I have looped in the Support team. Please hang tight! We will follow up on the thread you created yesterday :slight_smile:

Hey @fool , would you mind adding a couple bots from Ahrefs to the prerender list? Thank you for your time. Bot info . Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; AhrefsBot/7.0; +http://ahrefs.com/robot/) Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; AhrefsSiteAudit/6.1; +http://ahrefs.com/robot/)

Hi @patrickstox , I’d advise you to watch this thread: [image] Fix for rerendering for ahrefs Support Hi @nfuser , We’ve begun the process of adding this UA. We’re now waiting for the developers to confirm and release it into production. We’d let you know once…

I have no way of confirming this, but due to a massive increase in bandwidth usage I believe prerendering is counted against bandwidth usage. Can you please check and confirm if this is intentional or a bug.

Hi, @CaffeDoppio . The email address you used for this forum isn’t associated with any sites at Netlify. In order to research this, we will need to know which site you are asking about. You can post that information publicly or you can private message (PM) that to one of our support staff. I’ve conf…

Hi @luke thanks for your reply and for looking into this. It’s ccgtrader.net .

I have prerendering working with Twitter / Facebook, but for some reason it doesnt seem to work with opengraph.xyz can anyone point me in the right direction? The website I am testing is https://sharehomethegame.com/characters You can use any of the characters under this page to test different URL…

[image] Wonmin_Lee: It doesnt seem to work with opengraph.xyz Is that some service? If so, it might have a customer pre-render agent that we might not have configured on our end. If you can find its user agent and let us know, we can investigate if it can be added.

Hi, we will like to deactivate the External Prerender for our site prod-drinks-consumer-marketplace.netlify.app and switch to the internal pretender service by Netlify?

Hey @Spazwik , This has been updated.

[Support Guide] Understanding and debugging prerendering

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[Support Guide] Understanding and debugging prerendering

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