> Executive summary
Answer engines and agentic retrieval reward whatever is cheap to parse under tight budgets. When your product story arrives only after JavaScript hydration, you widen the visibility gap—the same gap our JavaScript Hydration & AI SEO whitepaper maps to architecture, schema, and roadmap. The charts below compress that narrative into a single glance.
Crawler JS success
Stylized comparison: traditional search bots vs. AI-oriented fetchers (timeouts, budgets, and execution paths differ—see whitepaper § crawler divide).
Availability timeline
SSR vs. CSR hydration: when meaningful text becomes observable if a bot waits (whitepaper: performance & AEO discovery).
$ JS payload vs. index success
Heavier bundles increase main-thread work and late content—aligned with the whitepaper’s discussion of INP, hydration cost, and crawler abandonment under caps.
Diagnosis
Large client bundles correlate with weaker first-packet truth. The fix is architectural—SSR, SSG, islands, or resumability—not another hero animation.
Source synthesis: whitepaper · comparative rendering table
Architectural exorcism
From the whitepaper: CSR shells vs. paths that ship first-packet truth to bots and agents.
Legacy SPA risk
Empty HTML → fetch JS → execute → hydrate → timeout risk
AEO-friendly render path
Edge / SSR / SSG → meaningful HTML immediately → AI indexing
Citation probability (illustrative)
Mirrors the whitepaper’s rendering-strategy column on AEO citations—compressed to a bar view for sharing.
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