Google says it has begun requiring users to turn on JavaScript, the widely used programming language to make web pages interactive, in order to use Google Search. In ...

Over-reliance on JavaScript creates a blind spot for AI search crawlers. AI search crawlers reportedly can't read JavaScript, limiting your site's visibility. Server-side rendering and HTML-first ...

Search engines have made improvements in indexing JavaScript websites. But the question of whether they can properly render JS pages remains muddled. JavaScript and SEO have long been a debated topic ...

Google has begun requiring users of its search engine to turn on JavaScript, a programming language that makes web pages interactive. The company said it protects ...

A little over a year ago, as the Covid-19 lockdowns were beginning to fan out across the globe, most folks grasped for toilet paper and canned food. The thing I reached for: a search function. The ...

Googlebot queues pages for both crawling and rendering. It is not immediately obvious when a page is waiting for crawling and when it is waiting for rendering. When Googlebot fetches a URL from the ...

How Googlebot processes JavaScript. Image source: Google Search developer’s guide. On July 18, Google added a JavaScript SEO basics section to its Search developer’s guide. It includes general ...

In a nutshell: Google recently confirmed that JavaScript is now required for users to submit queries to its web search service. According to a company spokesperson, the new requirement will improve ...

I recently read Ziemek Bucko’s fascinating article, Rendering Queue: Google Needs 9X More Time To Crawl JS Than HTML, on the Onely blog. Bucko described a test they did showing significant delays by ...