The term Jamstack was introduced by a Netlify co-founder in 2015. It describes pre-rendering content at build time and calling APIs through JavaScript when needed. Without assembling pages dynamically for every request, applications can reduce server downtime and the attack surface exposed to DDoS, while CDN caching enables fast global delivery. User-specific data, including live inventory and personalized dashboards, still requires client-side API calls or edge functions. Neglecting these dynamic paths can make a static site unexpectedly slow.
Some websites are seeing sharp increases in site: operator queries in Search Console performance reports. Explore possible causes, measurement effects and diagnostic responses.
