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title: "Prerendering: glossary: Agent Ready HTML"
description: "Prerendering defined: Rendering pages to static HTML at build time so every request gets finished content. A dated, sourced example follows."
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# Prerendering: glossary: Agent Ready HTML

> Prerendering defined: Rendering pages to static HTML at build time so every request gets finished content. A dated, sourced example follows.

Source: https://agentreadyhtml.com/glossary/prerendering/
Site: Agent Ready HTML
Last reviewed: 2026-11-04

# Prerendering

In short

Rendering pages to static HTML at build time so every request gets finished content. Example: By default Astro pages, routes and endpoints are prerendered at build time. Related terms: Server-side rendering (SSR), Real status code, Plain fetch. Server-side rendering (SSR): Rendering a page to HTML on the server per request, so the response carries the content.

## Source of the example

The example in the summary above is from [docs.astro.build](https://docs.astro.build/en/guides/on-demand-rendering/), read 4 November 2026.

## Where it shows up on this site

-   [Guide: move the answer into the initial HTML](https://agentreadyhtml.com/guides/move-answer-into-initial-html/)

## Neighbouring terms

-   [Server-side rendering (SSR)](https://agentreadyhtml.com/glossary/server-side-rendering/): Rendering a page to HTML on the server per request, so the response carries the content.
-   [Real status code](https://agentreadyhtml.com/glossary/real-status-code/): An HTTP status that matches what happened: 200 for a page, 404 for a missing path, 429 for throttling.
-   [Plain fetch](https://agentreadyhtml.com/glossary/plain-fetch/): An HTTP GET that reads the response body without executing scripts, the way most agent web tools and curl read pages.

## Sources

1.  [docs.astro.build](https://docs.astro.build/en/guides/on-demand-rendering/) https://docs.astro.build/en/guides/on-demand-rendering/, read 4 November 2026

Last reviewed 4 November 2026

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