How We Built an Ultra-Fast Travel Landing Page with Astro & Next.js for Instant Google Indexing

When building customer-facing travel and marketplace platforms, two metrics matter more than anything else: Time-To-First-Byte (TTFB) and Google Indexing Speed .

Travelers booking day excursions don't wait for heavy JavaScript bundles to hydrate, and search engine bots reward pages that serve pre-rendered HTML on edge CDNs.

In this case study, I’ll share how we architected the dedicated Day Tours in Tbilisi catalog for DayTourGuides by combining Astro 5 with a Next.js Reverse-Proxy , achieving sub-second loads and getting indexed by Google in under 48 hours.

1. The Architectural Challenge

Our core application runs on Next.js.…