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The post author writes: > So, very soon, the days of pre-rendering PhantomJs snapshots and serving shadow content to spiders will be over. To be clear: webmas
by peterhartree 11y ago
The post author writes:
> So, very soon, the days of pre-rendering PhantomJs snapshots and serving shadow content to spiders will be over.
To be clear: webmasters of sites with dynamic content should not celebrate yet. There are still influential spiders other than Google's that do not parse JavaScript (for example, Facebook[1] and Twitter[2]).
[1] https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters/crawler https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters/craw...
[2] Can't find an official statement on this, but https://twittercommunity.com/search?q=javascript%20crawl https://twittercommunity.com/search?q=javascript%20crawl
- oneeyedpigeon 11y agoAnd, of course, there are still all the other reasons why you shouldn't be serving static text via javascript; I wish the article had included such a caveat.