Why Base44 Sites Are Invisible to Google (And How to Fix It)

Base44 builds fast. But Google sees an empty page. Here is exactly what happens and what you can do about it.

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What Base44 actually builds

Base44 is an AI-powered website builder. You describe what you want, and it generates a working web application in minutes. The result looks professional. It functions correctly in a browser. By all visible measures, it works.

Under the hood, Base44 generates a React single-page application (SPA) bundled with Vite. This is a modern JavaScript framework architecture where the entire website is a JavaScript program that runs inside the browser. The server does not send your actual content. Instead, it sends a minimal HTML shell and a JavaScript bundle. The browser downloads that bundle, executes it, and the JavaScript builds the page contents on the fly.

This is called client-side rendering. The "client" is the browser. All of the rendering — turning your headings, paragraphs, images, and navigation into visible HTML — happens after the page loads, entirely inside the visitor's browser.

For a human visitor with a modern browser, this works fine. The JavaScript executes in milliseconds, and the page appears. But search engine crawlers do not work like human visitors.

What Google sees when it crawls your Base44 site

When Googlebot sends a request to your Base44 site, the server responds with the raw HTML document. This is what Google receives and reads first:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="UTF-8" />
  <title>Base44 App</title>
</head>
<body>
  <div id="root"></div>
  <script type="module" src="/assets/index-DxK3a.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

That is the entire document. No headings. No paragraphs. No product descriptions. No service information. No internal links. Just an empty <div id="root"></div> and a reference to a JavaScript file.

Google has a two-phase indexing process. In the first phase, it reads the raw HTML response. In the second phase, it may attempt to render JavaScript — but this second phase is delayed, resource-intensive, and not guaranteed. Google has to queue your page for rendering, allocate a headless Chromium instance, execute your JavaScript, and then re-evaluate the content. For most sites, particularly new or low-authority domains, this rendering step either never happens or happens weeks later.

Even when Google does render the JavaScript, the results are unreliable. React SPAs frequently depend on asynchronous API calls, dynamic routing, and state management that can fail or timeout in Google's rendering environment. The practical outcome is that Google reads your initial HTML, finds nothing useful, and moves on.

Five symptoms you will notice

If your Base44 site has this problem, you will see a consistent pattern across multiple tools and platforms:

1 Google Search Console shows "Crawled — currently not indexed"
This is the most common status for Base44 pages. Google found your URL, downloaded the HTML, saw nothing worth indexing, and declined to add it to search results. Your page exists on the web but does not exist in Google's index.
2 SEO audit tools report zero on-page content
Run your Base44 URL through Screaming Frog, Sitebulb, or Ahrefs Site Audit. They will report no H1 tag, no body text, no internal links, and no structured data. These tools read the server response the same way Google does — they see the empty shell.
3 Social share previews are blank
Paste your URL into Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Slack, or iMessage. The preview card will be empty or show only "Base44 App" as the title. Social platforms read the HTML directly. They do not execute JavaScript. There is no Open Graph content to display because your meta tags are generic and your page body is empty.
4 A site: search returns no results
Go to Google and type site:yourdomain.com. If nothing appears, or only the homepage appears with a generic title, Google has not indexed your content. This is the simplest test and the most telling.
5 Lighthouse SEO score looks fine, but nothing ranks
Lighthouse runs in a browser and evaluates the rendered page, including JavaScript output. So it sees your content and gives you a passing SEO score. This is misleading. Lighthouse tells you what a browser sees. It does not tell you what Google's crawler sees on its first pass. A perfect Lighthouse score means nothing if your server response is empty.

Why SEO plugins and prompts cannot fix this

A common reaction is to try to fix the problem inside Base44. You might add meta tags through Base44's settings, use SEO-focused prompts, or look for a plugin or integration that claims to solve the issue. None of these approaches address the actual problem.

The issue is not that your meta tags are wrong. The issue is architectural. Base44 generates a React SPA. The server sends an empty HTML document and a JavaScript bundle. This is how React SPAs work by design. No amount of prompt engineering, meta tag editing, or plugin installation changes the fundamental delivery mechanism.

Even if you manage to get custom meta tags into the <head> of the HTML shell, your page body is still empty. Google will see a title and description but zero content in the body. A meta description without corresponding body content is not enough for Google to index and rank a page. Google needs to see the actual content — the headings, the text, the links — in the HTML response.

Third-party prerendering services like Prerender.io can help in some cases, but they add complexity, ongoing cost, and another point of failure. They work by intercepting crawler requests and serving a cached, rendered version of your page. This adds latency, requires maintenance, and still does not give you clean, semantic HTML that you control.

How to fix it

The reliable fix is to convert your Base44 site from a client-rendered React SPA to static HTML files. This means taking the design, content, and structure of your current site and rebuilding it as plain HTML and CSS that the server delivers directly.

With static HTML, when Google (or any crawler) requests your page, it receives the full document immediately: headings, paragraphs, links, meta tags, structured data — everything, in a single response. No JavaScript execution required. No rendering queue. No second pass.

This approach is called static site generation (SSG). Your pages are pre-built HTML files. They load faster because there is no JavaScript framework overhead. They are crawlable by every search engine and every social platform. And because they are plain files, you can host them anywhere — on any server, any CDN, any static hosting provider — without being locked into a specific platform.

The conversion preserves your design exactly as it looks today. Your visitors see the same site. But under the hood, the delivery mechanism changes completely. Instead of sending an empty shell and hoping the browser builds the page, the server sends the finished page directly.

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