SERA on N7 Docs

SERA request flow

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Prerequisite#

You must have an account created on Nitrogen dashboard to view the SERA statistics
SERA must be configured to receive the requests from bots

Flow#

A typical request flow with SERA integration looks like this :

Page serving workflow :
(This is shown at left-hand side of flow in Yellow color)

Crawler requests are received on N7 CDN
If the N7 CDN has page available in cache/storage - it is returned back to crawler
1. If the page page is unavailable in cache/storage :
  1. If a failover is not configured - a 404 is returned to crawler
  2. If a failover is configured - the request is forwarded (proxied) to origin server
    1. Origin server sends the response
    2. SERA receives it, and sends it to crawler

Page rendering workflow :
(This is shown at right-hand side of flow in Yellow color)

Configure SERA for domain

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You can configure SERA for domains by following below steps.

Prerequisite#

You must have an account with Nitrogen
You must have a domain pointing to N7.
You must have a page group created.

Steps#

Select the SERA feature from the top Menu
Once you select the SERA feature, it will navigate to Domains list page
Click on Domain name, It will navigate to Dashboard page, shows the data charts/cards if you already configure the Page Groups for your domain, otherwise it will shows the an Go to Page Groups page

Dashboard

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This screen will display you various charts and cards with information related the selected domain e.g. Pre rendered pages, Search Bot Crawls etc.
Please go through below articles to get the details.

Cards#

Last Month’s, Current Month’s and Yesterday’s Data.

Charts#

List of History Execution URls#

This table will fetch the list of execution history with the status code

Analytics

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This screen will display you various charts with information related the selected domain e.g. Crawler Stats, Render Stats, Page Response Stats etc.
Please go through below articles to get the details.

Crawler Stats#

Render Stats#

Page Response Stats#

Sera Render API

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An on-demand API can be used to submit page URLs to SERA for rendering, allowing you to integrate with tools and automatically render frequently updated sites via scripts or tools.

Prerequisite#

You must have an account on Nitrogen.
Your target domain on which you want to call SERA on demand api must have been registered on Nitrogen.
You must have a service account configured with Editor access. If not, you can refer this article for the same.

Render API Request#

Render API Request Details#

API :

Delete SERA Render Storage API

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This API enables you to purge cached renders and delete SERA-rendered pages associated with a specific URL. It is particularly useful when a page has been removed and its rendered artifacts need to be cleaned up.

Prerequisite#

You must have an account on Nitrogen.
Your target domain must have been registered on Nitrogen.
You must have a service account configured with Editor access. If not, you can refer this article for the same.

Delete Render Storage API Request#

Delete Render Storage API Request Details#

API :

SERA Scenarios

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This document specifies scenarios that can affect the bot results.

Prerequisite#

Your must have a domain on which SERA is configured.
You must have an account on Nitrogen to view the dashboard.

SERA workflow#

SERA (Search Engine Rank Accelerator) is a tool that serves the ‘optimized’ version of ‘pre-processed’ page to the bots.
As bots need less time to process and render the SERA pages, they provide a good CWV score to the pages, and also effectively utilize the crawl budget.
All the render and crawl related stats can be checked in Dash .
To process the pages, SERA uses :