We are building an internal admin tool behind a login, and a public marketing site. Someone proposes server-side rendering for both because "SSR is faster". Do you agree?
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The situation behind the question
A team standardising on one rendering strategy for everything they build. The admin tool is used all day by 200 staff; the marketing site is mostly first-time visitors arriving from search and social.
What it is really testing
Whether the candidate can evaluate a rendering strategy against a workload instead of ranking strategies. The trap is the premise: "faster" is not a property of SSR, it is a property of a metric on a workload, and the two products in the question have opposite ones.