: How come Google can properly fetch and render some sites using a SPA but not others? I have 2 websites, both use a single-page app framework. One uses React, and one uses Angular. Neither

@Angela700

I'm gonna answer this in terms of general frameworks because generally questions too specific on the details of one website are closed here.

For any engine to be able to successfully render data, you want to make it as basic and as easy to understand as possible. In the early days, no search engine was able to render Javascript code. This means that if a website was done entirely in javascript, then clients without javascript enabled will see nothing.

What you want to do to ensure almost any tool can render (at least the text of) your page is to ensure its accessible via basic HTML.

I would suggest testing your pages (regardless of framework used to generate the code) with as many browsers as possible including the old-fashioned lynx browser.

While I do understand google processes some Javascript, I'm sure its limited. For this reason, if you must use Javascript to render your pages, use the level of scripting that an ancient browser (like Internet explorer 7 or under) can support.

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