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Framer — beautiful sites nobody can find?

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by Kerone Liu · learning in public · Feb 10, 2026 · 9 min read

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Framer builds some of the most gorgeous sites on the web — and a lot of them are close to invisible in AI search. It's not the design. It's how the pages are delivered. Here's the one fix that changes everything.

THE RECEIPTS

on Core Web Vitals
Great
Weak
AI-crawler access
1 fix
moves the needle

How it's built

Framer sites are stunning and fast for humans. But a chunk of the meaningful content — and the signals answer engines read — lean heavily on client-side rendering and thin, image-first pages that say little in plain HTML.

How it gets found

Traditional Google handles the JS well enough. The gap is GEO: AI crawlers are lazier than Googlebot, and a page that’s beautiful but semantically empty gives them nothing to cite. Gorgeous, and unquotable.

Where it leaks

  • The fix: ship real, crawlable text and structured data on the pages that matter, plus an llms.txt. Keep the beauty; give the machines something to quote.

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