Warm Bot

Warm Bot is an automatic service that periodically updates the cache of your popular pages. Thanks to this, bots always get instant responses without waiting for rendering.

Why Warm Bot

The Cold Cache Problem

Without Warm Bot, the first bot visiting a page after TTL expires waits for rendering:

Bot → Page request → Cache MISS → Rendering (2-5 sec) → Response

This means:

• Googlebot may not wait and leave
• AI agents get timeouts
• Social networks show empty previews

Solution with Warm Bot

Warm Bot updates cache in advance:

Warm Bot → Page warming → Cache updated

Bot → Page request → Cache HIT → Instant response

Result:

• All bots get instant responses
• No timeouts
• Higher search rankings

How Warm Bot Works

1. Statistics collection — SeoRend analyzes which pages bots request most often
2. List formation — Top-N pages by popularity are selected
3. Warming — Warm Bot periodically renders these pages and updates cache
4. Monitoring — If a page becomes less popular, it’s removed from the list

Configuring Warm Bot

Settings are in the dashboard: Settings → Warm.

Enable/Disable

The Enable Warm Bot toggle activates or deactivates the service.

Note

Warm Bot is available on Starter plans and above (Starter keeps 10 pages prerendered, refreshed daily). Not available on Free.

Warm renders are on us

Warm Bot renders don’t count against your monthly render limit.

Warming Interval

How often Warm Bot will update page cache:

Plan	Minimum interval
Starter	24 hours
Pro	24 hours
Business	1 hour
Enterprise	1 hour (top 500 pages), 24 hours (the rest)

Recommendation

Set the interval slightly less than Cache TTL. For example, if TTL = 24 hours, interval = 23 hours. This way cache is always fresh.

Maximum Pages

How many pages Warm Bot will keep “warm”:

Plan	Warm Max Pages
Starter	10
Pro	100
Business	500
Enterprise	10,000

Pages are selected automatically: root pages first, then pages ranked by actual bot traffic, then manual URLs, then your sitemap fills the remaining capacity.

Page Source

Where Warm Bot gets the page list:

1. Telemetry (automatic)

Warm Bot analyzes telemetry — which pages bots request most often — and ranks them by traffic and recency. Root pages always come first.

2. Sitemap (automatic)

After you analyze your sitemap, pages from it fill the remaining plan capacity, highest sitemap priority first. This is how sites with little bot traffic still get full coverage.

3. Manual URLs

On Business and above plans, you can add URLs manually. This is useful for:

• New pages that haven’t gained traffic yet
• Important landing pages
• Pages rarely visited by bots but important for business

Your domains only

Sitemap analysis and manual URLs work only for domains your account has actually rendered through its API key in the last 30 days. This protects the warm fleet from being pointed at sites you don’t operate.

Manual URLs

In Warm → Manual URLs section you can:

• Add URL — enter the full page URL
• Remove URL — remove a page from the list
• View list — all URLs you’ve added manually

Limits:

Plan	Manual URLs
Starter, Pro	0
Business	500
Enterprise	10,000

Important

Manual URLs don’t replace automatic selection — they’re added to it. For example, if you have a Business plan (500 Warm Pages) and you’ve added 100 Manual URLs, a total of 500 pages will be warmed: 100 yours + 400 from telemetry.

Monitoring Warm Bot

Dashboard Statistics

In the Overview section you’ll see:

• Warm Requests — number of requests from Warm Bot
• Warm Pages — how many pages are currently in the “warm” list
• Last Warm Run — when warming last ran
• Next Warm Run — when next warming is scheduled

Warming Logs

In Warm → History section, logs of recent warmings are available:

• Execution time
• Number of warmed pages
• Errors (if any)

Warm Bot Billing

Warm renders are on us

Warm Bot renders do not count toward your monthly render limit and are never billed. Your quota is spent only on real bot requests that miss the cache.

Example for Pro plan (25,000 renders/month):

• Warm Bot keeps 100 pages fresh daily — 0 renders consumed from your quota
• Real bots mostly hit the warm cache — cache hits are also free
• Your 25,000 renders are spent only on cache misses from real bot traffic

If your monthly render limit is exhausted:

1. Warm Bot keeps working — your top pages stay prerendered
2. Real bot requests are served from cache for free
3. On a cache miss the API returns 429 and your integration falls back to serving the origin page (bots never see an error)

Best Practices

1. Start with Automation

Let Warm Bot collect statistics for 1-2 weeks. It will determine the most important pages itself.

2. Add Manual URLs Selectively

Only manually add pages that:

• Are important for business but rarely indexed
• Were just published
• Are needed for AI agents (documentation, FAQ)

3. Optimize Interval

Match Warm Bot interval with Cache TTL:

• TTL 1 hour → interval 50-55 minutes
• TTL 24 hours → interval 23 hours

4. Monitor Logs

Regularly check warming logs. If you see many errors — some pages may be unavailable or take too long to render.

Limits by Plan

Plan	Warm Bot	Interval	Max Pages	Manual URLs
Free	—	—	0	0
Starter	✓	24h	10	0
Pro	✓	24h	100	0
Business	✓	1h	500	500
Enterprise	✓	1h (top 500), 24h (rest)	10,000	10,000