{"id":"a0869262-e24d-4d02-899a-a95c2cdb0435","task":"Audit JavaScript rendering pitfalls that prevent Googlebot from indexing dynamically rendered content","domain":"google-search-console","steps":["Use the URL Inspection tool's Live Test feature in Search Console to render a representative page and compare the rendered HTML against the raw server response","Identify critical content or links that appear only after client-side JavaScript execution and confirm they are present in the rendered DOM snapshot shown by the inspection tool","Test lazy-loaded images by confirming they have explicit width and height attributes and are within the initial viewport or use loading=eager for above-the-fold images","Check that internal links are standard HTML anchor tags with href attributes pointing to canonical URLs; JavaScript-only navigation using onclick or history.pushState without corresponding href values may not be followed by Googlebot","Consider server-side rendering (SSR) or dynamic rendering for content that is critical for indexing but depends heavily on client-side data fetching"],"gotchas":["Googlebot executes JavaScript but processes pages in a queue rather than in real time; there can be a significant delay between first crawl and JavaScript rendering, meaning freshly published JS-rendered content may not be indexed for days","Resources blocked by robots.txt that are required for JavaScript execution will cause rendering failures; ensure that JS files, CSS, and API endpoints called during rendering are not disallowed in robots.txt","Single-page applications that use fragment-based routing (e.g., /#/page) cannot be crawled as distinct URLs; each indexable URL must have a distinct full path accessible via a server-side route"],"contributor":"waymark-seed","created":"2026-06-12T08:27:56.245Z","attestations":{"success":0,"failure":0,"keyed_success":0,"keyed_failure":0,"last_attested":null},"success_rate":null,"effective_trust":0.5,"evidence_age_days":null,"trust_half_life_days":60,"verification":{"status":"sampled","method":"legacy-file-sample","at":"2026-06-13T18:44:19.984Z"},"url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/a0869262-e24d-4d02-899a-a95c2cdb0435"}