Let's talk about URLs today and how they affect CouchCommerce shops.
It's been not too long ago that the URLs in our web app looked like this.
http://m.your-shop.de/#/cat/a-unique-category-identifier (For category listings)
http://m.your-shop.de/#/cat/a-unique-category-identifier/products (For product listings)
http://m.your-shop.de/#/cat/a-unique-category-identifier/product/a-unique-product-identifier (For product pages)
There are a couple of problems related to such URLs and there has been a steady demand from customers to improve on them. Let's first outline what the problems are.
Search Crawler Visibility
WebApps work differently from Websites. A traditional website fetches HTML, Images[1], CSS[1] and JavaScript[1] every time that you click on a link to navigate through the pages. More precisely, the browser hits the server at the given URL to fetch such assets every time that the URL changes. In a WebApp there are no different server side pages but still we want link-ability. Therefore engineers recycled an old technique that has been around since the early days of web browsers.![]()
