Angular JS - Page Load

[Malika1]

Website build in process in Angular JS. We are looking at prerendering the pages so its all good. However, because there are going to be few server requests, how would the page load be like for search engines?

Also, on the client side (browser) would there be any impact if we prerender the pages?

Cheers!

[Mobilio]

Did you read prerender documentation?
https://prerender.io/documentation/install-middleware#apache

Because there you can find two examples (Apache + nginx):
https://gist.github.com/thoop/8072354
https://gist.github.com/thoop/8165802

How they works? Simple - bot's are received proxified version from this url:
http://service.prerender.io/http://example.com/url
this works as your server is switch to specific proxy mode called reverse proxy. This works similar as proxy. Proxy caches results from few computers/network to the internet. Computers are clients, they sent requests, proxy go in internet and execute it, then return result to clients. This is normal way. In reverse way - internet is client and proxy serve requests to internal infrastructure. This allow hiding internal infrastructure, easy scaling or even make complex site with few internal servers (one will process /blog, other /shop, third /support, etc).

But - this "prerender" version is served only to bots. Normal clients (not in list) received AngularJS version of HTML. Since everything is served from your own server you shouldn't hesitated.

Second - do not (!!!) sent prerendered version to clients because prerender can't load pages from your server to make it prerendered. You can make easy overload your server in redirect loop. Also prerender server's too.