Performance Comparison

Understanding the performance characteristics and trade-offs of different rendering strategies

Performance Metrics

MetricCSRSSRSSGDescription
Time to First Byte (TTFB)
~50ms
~200ms
~10ms
Time between request and first byte received
Largest Contentful Paint (LCP)
~2.5s
~1.2s
~0.8s
Time to render the largest content element
First Input Delay (FID)
~100ms
~50ms
~50ms
Time from first user interaction to browser response
SEO Friendliness
Poor
Excellent
Excellent
How well search engines can crawl and index content
Server Load
Low
High
Minimal
Computational resources required on the server
Data Freshness
Real-time
Fresh
Stale
How current the displayed data is

Best for CSR

  • Real-time trading dashboards
  • Interactive data visualization
  • User-specific personalized content
  • Frequently updating live feeds

Best for SSR

  • Product detail pages for e-commerce
  • News articles and blog posts
  • User profile pages
  • Search result pages

Best for SSG

  • Marketing landing pages
  • Documentation sites
  • Company about pages
  • Cryptocurrency information pages