JavaScript links can make your pages invisible to AI search

A 41-day experiment reveals how JavaScript-only navigation limits AI crawler discovery and why fixing it later can be harder.
Wired

The JavaScript Framework That Puts Web Pages on a Diet

Websites are too damn big. The average web page is about 2 megabytes, according to HTTP Archive, a site that tracks the performance of websites and the technologies they use. Sure you can download 2 ...
Google

Google Indexes and Ranks JavaScript Pages in Two Waves Days Apart

Tom Greenaway from Google spoke at Google I/O yesterday about how Google handles JavaScript pages, and he mentioned something pretty significant – Googlebot treats indexing and ranking of JavaScript ...
Searchenginejournal.com

Google Renders All Pages For Search, Including JavaScript-Heavy Sites

Google renders all HTML pages for search indexing. Rendering is resource-intensive but necessary for comprehensive indexing. JavaScript-heavy websites are now fully processed by Google. Google renders ...
Visual Studio Magazine

It's All About the Scripts

AJAX-enabled Web sites rely heavily upon JavaScript. Without JavaScript, Web pages that leverage AJAX are practically rendered useless. While writing JavaScript code is fairly straightforward, writing ...
Searchenginejournal.com

Google Says It’s Normal For Cached JavaScript Pages To Appear Empty

JavaScript-based webpages may appear blank or incomplete in Google’s cache, which is normal and not indicative of any problems. This is stated by Google’s Search Advocate John Mueller in the latest ...