Gary Illyes from Google posted a PSA (public service announcement) of kinds on Mastodon and LinkedIn for websites which are heavy with JavaScript. He mentioned that it’s best to attempt to load the content material, together with the “marginal boilerplate” content material, first when you’ve gotten a JavaScript-heavy website.
He mentioned that is latest recommendation based mostly on seeing a “bunch” of emails with complaints from SEOs the place they see “a lot of dups reported in Search Console.” He mentioned when he tried to load the pages in his browser, it “took perpetually to load,” “so rendering timed out (my probably clarification) and we have been left with a bunch of pages that solely had the boilerplate. With solely the boilerplate, these pages are dups,” he added.
So should you see this challenge in Google Search Console in your JavaScript heavy website, then strive it, attempt to load the content material first.
Here’s what Gary posted:
Do you’ve gotten a JavaScript-heavy website and also you see a lot of dups reported in Search Console? Attempt to restructure the js calls such that the content material (together with marginal boilerplate) hundreds first and see if that helps.
I’ve a bunch of emails in my inbox the place the problem is that the centerpiece took perpetually to load, so rendering timed out (my probably clarification) and we have been left with a bunch of pages that solely had the boilerplate. With solely the boilerplate, these pages are dups.
Gary later added on Mastodon, “Engines like google are in actual fact similar to a person’s browser in terms of indexing, however a person does not entry billions of pages (or nonetheless many engines like google usually entry) every single day, so that they should have stricter limits.”
