Can Google index React sites?

Google has the ability to crawl even “heavy” React sites quite effectively . However, you have to build your application in such a way that it loads important stuff that you would want Googlebot to crawl when your app loads. Stuff to take note of include: Rendering your page on the server so it can load immediately.

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Why React is not good for SEO?

React gives you a SPA (Single Page Application) which requires Javascript to show the content on the page. The problem is that the Google crawl bot, that scans all the pages on the internet, isn’t as good as understanding a page with javascript compared with a page that consists of regular HTML-code.

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Which is faster client-side or server-side?

A server is generally going to be orders of magnitude more powerful than a client machine ; and managed code is generally much faster than scripting. However – the client machine also usually has a lot of spare computational power that isn’t being used, while the server could be running requests for thousands of users.

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