Why Moving Away from SPAs improves Usability, Accessibility, and SEO – Innoweb: Innovative Web Solutions in Sydney
September 9, 2025
For years, Single Page Applications (SPAs) built with frameworks like React have dominated the web development landscape. They promised fluid transitions, dynamic interfaces, and app-like experiences. But as performance bottlenecks, accessibility challenges, and SEO limitations become more apparent, many teams are reconsidering this approach. A growing movement is embracing traditional server-rendered websites. Not out of nostalgia, but as a strategic return to simplicity, speed, and inclusivity for content-driven sites.This isn’t a blanket dismissal of SPAs. For highly interactive platforms like social networks, dashboards, or real-time collaboration tools, SPAs remain a powerful choice. But for marketing sites, blogs, documentation, other content-first experiences, and sites where interactive content is merely embedded from external services, server-rendered architectures often offer a better balance of performance and maintainability.
Long-time Web Directions attendee Florian Thoma here considers whether the single-page application architecture is the right one for content-heavy sites.
