Features and Functionalities

You can control the cache expiration time in your Dashboard under Cache Manager . This feature sets an interval at which your pages are automatically recached. Cache Expiration is the amount of time we wait between recaching a page. If you se...

Swagger All of our current API endpoints are also available via Swagger . Recache You can use the recache API to cache a URL for the first time or recache a URL cached previously. This POST request needs to be in JSON format; otherwise, it wo...

User Agent Prerender.io crawler User-Agent will always contain: Prerender (+https://github.com/prerender/prerender) Wherever you see the string Chrome/ W.X.Y.Z in the user agent strings in the table, W.X.Y.Z is a placeholder tha...

There are two queues, the priority queue, and the normal queue. Both queues recache at the same rate. Your recache rate is NUM_CACHED_PAGES / CACHE_EXPIRATION pages recached each day (divide by 24 to get pages recached per hour, etc). So, your cac...

When using Prerender.io, most websites don't experience any issues with mobile vs. desktop crawlers as they are responsive. If your website is adaptive and you serve a different page to desktop vs. mobile viewports, we can turn on a feature for your...

Prerender.io has a multi-user functionality, which is still under development. You can invite your team members via your Dashboard by navigating to Team Members . By adding their email address you can invite your team memebers to access your Prere...

You can force Prerender to render pages with a specific device type, which will override the automatic device detection system. To do this, add the  X-Prerender-Device-Type  header with either the  Mobile  or  Desktop  v...

Context We distinguish pages with hard and soft 404 status. Soft 404 pages return a 200 HTTP status code and show a message about a nonexistent page. Hard 404 pages have the same content, however, they also have a 404 HTTP status.  The Preren...

Context A sitemap tells the search engines what pages of your site are essential in your opinion and it also provides them with additional helpful information such as when each page was updated. In other words, a sitemap helps search bots discover ...

If you are experiencing any issues with the Prerender service you can quickly check if it might be because of a network issue or is it because of maintenance. You can also keep track of and get updates about scheduled maintenance here. Monitored s...