How much traffic can a pre-rendered Next.js site handle?

← Blog index Published today How much traffic can a pre-rendered Next.js site really handle? I've often said things like "A pre-rendered site can easily serve hundreds of concurrent users", because, well, I've never seen one fail. But how many can it really handle? Could my site actually handle a traffic surge from landing on something like the Hacker News frontpage? How does it compare to server-side rendering? And is it actually worth jumping through hoops to avoid SSR? I looked around for hard data on Next.js performance, but solid numbers were surprisingly hard to find. So, I ran some tests on my own site, and the results weren't what I expected. And in perfect timing, my article on Google Translate interfering with React hit the Hacker News frontpage the very next day. Right after I discovered (spoiler alert) my site probably couldn't handle it. A pre-rendered site on a VPS The first thing I wanted to find out was whether my site could handle a surge in visitors from so ... Read full article.