JavaScript rendering for AI crawlers
Whether a bot executes JS. Many AI crawlers are worse at this than Googlebot. If the article is empty without JS, you are invisible.
SSR or prerender the words that matter. Don’t argue with the bot’s budget.
Computer-use agents may render; citation crawlers often won’t. Design for the dumb crawler.
Examples
- A Next.js blog where the HTML is `<div id=root>`. Perplexity cites a scraper that stole your text. Own the HTML.
Related terms
AXO is making a site usable for AI agents that click, fill forms, and complete tasks — not only for human readers and classic crawlers.
Bots from model labs and answer engines that fetch pages for training, retrieval, or user-initiated reading.
LCP, INP, CLS — Google’s speed and stability metrics. Slow pages also annoy crawlers and agents.
FAQ
Google renders, isn’t that enough? +
For Google, maybe. For GPTBot and friends, often not. View page source like it’s 2009.
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