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 ...