: For webpages using jQuery, will the Googlebot index them on "page load" or after the "page ready" state? Will the Googlebot index a webpage on "page load" or after the "page ready" state. The

@BetL925

Google indexes the text after the page is fully ready. I have a password creation site that uses JavaScript to write random passwords into the page on jQuery's $(document).ready. Googlebot was indexing those randomly generated passwords.

I've previously asked how to prevent that indexing because random passwords aren't text that should be indexed: How do I prevent Google from indexing text that is generated by JavaScript?

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@Cugini213

An article I'd read earlier this month revealed tests that have seen Googlebot execute Javascript and process the resulting Document Object Model (DOM), rather than simply looking at the HTML source code, you might find this a helpful read:

SearchEngineLand: Tested Googlebot Crawls Javascript (May 2015)

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@Connie744

It doesn't matter. Google reads your markup and doesn't render the content. If they read your javascript, then they can tell if its manipulating those headings, no matter when it happens.

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