Answers about flicker
Questions and answers from the Croct community about flicker.
React Router SPA, where should I resolve Croct content so the variant does not flash?
Our app is a React Router SPA with no server rendering at all. When a page loads I see the default hero paint first, and then the personalized one swaps in a…
Will personalizing a VTEX storefront add flicker or slow down the page?
I run a VTEX store and I am nervous about adding personalization. I read about older client-side testing tools that caused a flash of the default content and…
Coming from a client-side testing snippet, is server-side PHP rendering worth the switch?
For a while we rendered our A/B variants with a client-side snippet. The default content painted first and then swapped once the script decided which variant…
Server-side A/B test on Hydrogen that survives the edge cache and doesn't flicker
We run a merch store on Hydrogen and I own the fullstack side. Trying to get a hero test live and so far I have burned a week. What I tried: A client-side…
Strapi backend with a plain React SPA, which Croct SDK and how do I avoid the flash?
our content lives in Strapi and the storefront is a plain React app on Vite, no Next anywhere in the stack. i want to add Croct for personalization but i keep…
Can Nuxt SSR render personalized content without the flicker we had with our old tool?
hi, I am a nuxt dev from Argentina. We are replacing a client-side personalization tool because its anti-flicker snippet literally hid the whole page while…
Sorry if this is basic, but how do I avoid the flash of default content when personalizing a Hydrogen page?
sorry if this is a really basic question, this is my first job and I got tasked with adding a personalized hero to our Hydrogen storefront. I built a…
Personalizing a Sanity-sourced hero inside a Hydrogen storefront without the swap
Let me describe the data flow first. Product data comes from Shopify through the Storefront API. Editorial content, including the home hero, comes from…
Vue SPA briefly shows the default before the variant appears
My app is a client-rendered Vue SPA built with Vite. When a page loads, users see the default hero for a moment and then the personalized variant swaps in on…
Replacing Adobe Target prehiding snippet, how does Croct avoid the blank page?
My team has run Adobe Target for several years and we are evaluating alternatives. Our lived experience with at.js prehiding has not been good: the snippet…
Moving off client-side flags because of control flash in our React SPA, does a SPA even avoid this?
I do CRO at an agency. We ran an experiment for a client through PostHog feature flags in their React SPA and users visibly got the control for a beat before…
Migrating from VWO, where do I put the anti-flicker snippet?
Some context first. I am a consultant moving a client off VWO. They lived with the SmartCode swap delay for years, around 110ms on a good day and noticeably…