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Do search engines perform JS rendering while crawling?
Google and Bing now render JavaScript when crawling websites. However, there is a lot that can go wrong in that process. The first step you should take in debugging the problem is to sign up for ...
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Pagespeed Insights reports that Google Analytics is blocking main thread in page load
GA4 uses Google Tag Manager to load Google Analytics, which means a bigger hit to your site's performance.
To minimize the performance impact, here are some things I did.
Use preconnect
Use preconnect ...
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restricting Google Maps js API keys to just my domain
Google changes this around every now and then, and whenever they do I have to 're-find' where each of the settings are.
So you're not alone!
You're right that a browser key is essentially 'public' ...
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Server-side rendering for search engines only (SEO)
Can I just send pre-rendered HTML, using phantomjs or other headless
browser, to the google bot?
In short... no you shouldn't. Google's stance on differing versions for visitors and search bots is ...
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Most website visitors don't have Java enabled
Java != Javascript
Javascript is a scripting language supported by the overwhelming majority if interactive browsers. Note that I said Interactive browsers - most bots will have extremely limited - if ...
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Tracking logged in vs. non-logged in users on the same URL in Google Analytics
Use custom dimensions in Google Analytics.
First, navigate to the "admin" section of Google Analytics' web portal, click "Custom Definitions", then "Custom Dimensions" under the property you're ...
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Are Googlebot and other search engine crawlers able to detect if element is hidden after page load by JavaScript?
Googlebot now renders pages and views the page as a user sees it when it loads, including applying CSS and running JavaScript. Google will detect text that is hidden using either CSS or JavaScript.
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How to hide h1 and h2 tags using JavaScript while still having them for SEO
You can't hide h1 and h2 tags (or any text for that matter) and still have them apply positively to SEO.
For several years now, Google has been trying to index precisely what the user sees. Google is ...
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Does Google count external Javascript or CSS files as backlinks?
Those are not links so they aren't counted as such. They're URLs of resources which are very different things. Hosting such a resource offers no direct SEO value but being known as a reliable host can ...
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Do cryptocurrency webminers in a blog violate adsense policies?
Google's Adsense policy does not touch upon Crypto Currency Browser miners directly but it is clear that either malware or anything else that interferes with site navigation is considered a breach of ...
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Do I need to add the Google Tag Manager if I already have Google Analytics?
you can leave the global site tag tracking code snippet on your site, just do not also configure tags for GA pageview tracking within GTM.
If it were me, I would remove the global site tag tracking ...
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DOMContentLoaded vs. 'load' event vs. "Finish"
Many web pages that make requests using JS are never really fully loaded, because they can always request more assets seconds, minutes or even hours later, either to update the page (think like Gmail) ...
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How do I stop Google from indexing AJAX calls within Javascript?
I would put the Ajax function into robots.txt:
Disallow: /somepage/AjaxFunction.aspx
That will prevent Google from crawling it. Google doesn't typically index URLs it can't crawl. It will only ...
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Is bad for SEO if browser need to run synchronous JS to get content?
Google doesn't care about the name of the tags in your body section - the crawler renders the site using chrome itself (including synchronous js) so it cares for whatever is printed to the screen. You'...
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What are the benefits of utilizing a Web Server vs opening an HTML file directly via your browser
I tend to use a development server rather than file:/// URLs even when developing static sites. There are quite a few things that don't work from file:/// URLs. Just the first two points in my list ...
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How can I track button click in google analitycs?
You are using gtag.js tracking code. Syntax for event tracking for gtag.js is:
gtag('event', 'action', {'event_category': 'category', 'event_label': 'label', 'value': value});
If it does not ...
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How to pass JavaScript errors to Google Analytics using Google Tag Manager
Yes, the article is not quite complete. Any trigger has to be matched with a tag, in this case a Universal Analytics Event tracking tag (I do not believe there is another appropriate way to send it). ...
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Do I need to add the Google Tag Manager if I already have Google Analytics?
You need to add your Google Tag Manager code in your website.
Then, you have two options:
Leave it, don't do anything else. Your Google Analytics code will remain as it is and FB Pixel will be added ...
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Does using onclick to redirect parameters impact SEO?
Based on Links Crawable Guidelines, the link will be crawled as https://www.example.com/, because Google can not follow link from onclick attributes.
Google search central says:
Google can follow ...
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How to improve page speed of a site built with Prismic
I work on the Developer Experience team over at Prismic, so I might be able to help answer your question!
When I run some of these sites through PageSpeed insights, it's true that some aren't scoring ...
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Structured Data Tool doesn't see JavaScript rendered content
Indeed, Googlebot is a kind of browser, which processes javascript the testing tool does not.
With JSON-LD, if loaded by javascript, you will achieve the same effect you get now: search console sees ...
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How do I stop Google from indexing AJAX calls within Javascript?
Do not add X-Robots-Tag "noindex" in the AJAX function. That may block the main html page.
We thought it would be a good idea, we did it in a project and what happened is that the AJAX portion of the ...
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Can Google crawl dynamic structured data added in a window.onload() event?
<script src="https://example.site.com/rich-snippet/dist.js" defer=""></script>
<script>
window.addEventListener('load', function() {
richSnippet();
});
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Delete Firefox JavaScript console history?
Enter this in the console:
clearHistory()
New in Firefox 39. Just like a normal command line, the console command line remembers the commands you've typed. Use this function to clear the console's ...
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Should I use the 'noreferrer' attribute on my website links (to open in a new window) as a safety measure?
You only need to use one or the other. From Google tools for web developers -- Links to cross-origin destinations are unsafe:
rel="noopener" prevents the new page from being able to access the ...
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How to disable .htaccess file using JavaScript?
You can't. There isn't a way for a very good reason.
The htaccess file cannot and should not ever be modified by the client. If it were possible to implement a workaround to that, you would have ...
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Does Googlebot crawl JS or JSON inside an HTML page?
Googlebot is likely to discover and crawl URLs found either in JavaScript or JSON. Googlebot has been doing this for many years, well before it could execute JavaScript. It appears it uses ...
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How JSON works in HTML Script Tag regarding SEO Search availability?
You're making a mistake when you talk about JSON in this story. JSON is just a format and it plays exactly no role here. What is more important is JS rendering. Also, you're showing the source of your ...
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