Dealing with performance
Performance and SEO are two important aspects of any web application. Performance, in particular, can affect the SEO score, as a lousy-performing website will lower the SEO score.
At the beginning of this chapter, we've already seen how choosing the right rendering strategy can help us improve performance, but sometimes, we have to compromise between a slightly lower performance in favor of security, business logic, and suchlike.
Another thing that can potentially increase (or decrease) performance is the deployment platform. For instance, if you're deploying a Next.js static website to a CDN such as Cloudflare or AWS Cloudfront, you're likely to get the best possible performance. On the other hand, deploying a server-side rendered application to a small, cheap server will probably give you some trouble once the website starts to scale and the server is not prepared for handling all the incoming requests, leading to bad performance. We...
