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title: "Universal rendering: glossary: Agent Ready HTML"
description: "Universal rendering defined: Nuxt term for rendering on the server first and hydrating in the browser. A dated, sourced example follows."
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last_updated: 2026-11-04
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# Universal rendering: glossary: Agent Ready HTML

> Universal rendering defined: Nuxt term for rendering on the server first and hydrating in the browser. A dated, sourced example follows.

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

# Universal rendering

In short

Nuxt term for rendering on the server first and hydrating in the browser. Example: Nuxt uses universal rendering by default and can switch to client-side in one line. Related terms: Vary: Accept, Token reduction. Vary: Accept: A response header telling caches that the body depends on the Accept header, so HTML and markdown are stored separately.

## Source of the example

The example in the summary above is from [nuxt.com](https://nuxt.com/docs/4.x/guide/concepts/rendering), read 4 November 2026.

## Where it shows up on this site

-   [Method](https://agentreadyhtml.com/method/)

## Neighbouring terms

-   [Vary: Accept](https://agentreadyhtml.com/glossary/vary-accept/): A response header telling caches that the body depends on the Accept header, so HTML and markdown are stored separately.
-   [Token reduction](https://agentreadyhtml.com/glossary/token-reduction/): How many fewer model tokens a page costs as markdown than as HTML.

## Sources

1.  [nuxt.com](https://nuxt.com/docs/4.x/guide/concepts/rendering) https://nuxt.com/docs/4.x/guide/concepts/rendering, read 4 November 2026

Last reviewed 4 November 2026

Edition

Crawl

2026-11-04

Page updated

2026-11-04

Method

How the viewer reads a page, how a file is graded and how a platform is scored: [the method page](https://agentreadyhtml.com/method/).