Lighter Navigation Payload Across Server-Rendered Pages

Overview

AI Commerce now serves a lighter navigation payload across server-rendered pages. Top-level category links remain in the initial HTML, while deeper category trees are loaded only when needed. This removes duplicated navigation data from SSR responses without changing the main crawlable category paths.

Performance Improvements

In live verification, a fresh server-rendered response showed measurable improvements across all transfer metrics:

• ~28% less raw HTML

• ~30% smaller Brotli-compressed transfer size

• ~20% smaller gzip transfer size

• ~43% less inlined page context data

This improves response efficiency while keeping important SEO-relevant links available in server-rendered HTML.