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Why BetterEO
Prerendering services stop at cached HTML for search engines. AI-visibility tools report how you appear in AI answers but don’t change what crawlers get. BetterEO does the prerendering, makes your site easy for AI assistants to read, and measures the difference on your own pages, in one service.
Side by side
Prerendering, and what comes with it
What you’d expect from any prerendering service
- Fully rendered HTML for crawlers that don’t run JavaScript, served from a cache at the edge.
- Works with sites built with React, Vue, Angular and other JavaScript frameworks.
- Pages discovered from your sitemap, re-rendered on a schedule, and re-rendered or cleared on demand.
- Rendering as mobile, desktop, or both.
- Visitors go straight to your site, so rendering is never in their path.
- Dynamic rendering, which Google accepts when crawlers and visitors get the same content.
What only BetterEO brings together
- Clean Markdown for AI assistants that ask for it, announced in a Link header, with a generated llms.txt, llms-full.txt and robots.txt.
- SEO and AEO scores for each page, without and with BetterEO, marking what BetterEO fixes and what needs a change on your site.
- Security scans and opt-in protections at the edge, from HSTS and anti-framing to a baseline Content-Security-Policy.
- AI analytics from real traffic: the pages assistants fetch to answer prompts, the format they got, and the visits their answers send you.
- An MCP server, so your coding assistant can read all of this and fix your code.
- Setup with two DNS records: no middleware, server rules or code.
- A preview address and Fetch as crawler, so you see what Googlebot, GPTBot and ClaudeBot get before you change a DNS record.
- Unchanged pages aren’t rendered again: you pay for a quick check, billed at 50% of its time, not a new render.
- Render time billed per second, by calendar month, with no plans and no base fee.
Feature by feature
BetterEO compared
| BetterEO | A typical prerendering service | A typical AI-visibility tool | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rendered HTML for search engines | Yes, from a cache at the edge | Yes | No |
| Markdown and llms.txt for AI assistants | Markdown when they ask, plus generated llms.txt, llms-full.txt and robots.txt | Not usually | No |
| Changes what crawlers get | HTML, Markdown, missing metadata, structured data and bot files | HTML snapshots | Usually not: it reports what to change |
| SEO and AEO scores | For each page, without and with BetterEO | No | Visibility reports, without a before and after on your pages |
| AI assistant analytics | Pages fetched to answer prompts, format served and visits from AI answers, from real traffic | Crawler activity, on some plans | Mostly mentions in a sample of tracked prompts |
| Security | Scans with and without BetterEO, plus opt-in protections at the edge | No | No |
| Coding assistants (MCP) | A read-only MCP server per project | Not usually | Not usually |
| Setup | Two DNS records, no code | Middleware, server rules or CDN configuration | Nothing to install, and nothing changes on your site |
| See what crawlers get before going live | A preview address and Fetch as crawler, before any DNS change | Once the middleware or rules are installed | Not applicable |
| Keeping pages fresh | Unchanged pages are checked, not rendered again | Pages re-cached on a fixed interval, each re-cache counted as a render | Not applicable |
| Pricing | Pay as you go: render time per second, no plans, no base fee and no overage charges. Fully transparent billing: every render and what it cost is in your console | Monthly plans with a render quota | Monthly plans by the number of prompts tracked |
Switching
Switching from another prerendering service
Crawlers keep getting fully rendered HTML, served the way search engines already accept. What changes: setup is two DNS records instead of middleware, server rules or CDN configuration; AI assistants also get clean Markdown and a generated llms.txt; you see SEO, AEO and security scores without and with BetterEO; and you pay for render time by the second instead of a plan, with unchanged pages checked rather than rendered again. Keep your current setup until BetterEO has rendered your pages, then remove it.
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