Fishbone Talk

Opinions and post-mortems from a shop that ships its own software.

field notes · 6 min read · Big Bad Agency

your prerender says it worked. here's how to tell if it actually did

Eleven pages on one of our own sites shipped as HTTP 200 shells carrying the homepage title and nothing else — and our thin-content guard waved them through, because on a chrome-heavy route an empty page is bigger than a real one. Why byte counts can't detect an empty render, and the thirty-second check that can.

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