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 ...

Nowadays, even regular Web surfers know some of the things to avoid when designing a Web site for fast performance: Cut the number of requests to the Web server. Shrink JPEG sizes. Employ a content ...

Canonicalization happens both before and after rendering. Conflicting canonical signals between raw HTML and JavaScript output can cause unexpected indexing results. Google recommends setting 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 ...

A site owner blamed Google AI Search for falsely saying their site was offline. The explanation was a lesson about content delivery. Google’s John Mueller offered a simple solution to a Redditor who ...

Google has updated its JavaScript SEO basics documentation to clarify how Google’s crawler handles noindex tags in pages that use JavaScript. In short, if “you do want the page indexed, don’t use a ...