Technical SEO FAQ · JavaScript SEO & Rendering
How can you determine whether important content is available in rendered HTML?
Compare:
View-source / raw response
with
rendered DOM
and then validate with Search Console URL Inspection.
If the important content exists only after JavaScript, that is not automatically a problem. The question is whether Google can reliably render and process it.
Also test representative templates rather than only one page.
For an e-commerce site, test:
- product;
- category;
- filtered category;
- search;
- out-of-stock product;
- discontinued product.
Google specifically recommends URL Inspection for checking how Google sees rendered pages.
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