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Google currently states that the rendered HTML produced after JavaScript execution is used to index a page.
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- Understand JavaScript SEO Basics | Google Search Central
Google for Developers · primary source · retrieved 2026-08-20
“a headless Chromium renders the page and executes the JavaScript... Google also uses the rendered HTML to index the page” — How Google processes JavaScript, rendering paragraph
- No-JavaScript fallbacks in 2026: Less critical, still necessary
Search Engine Land · retrieved 2026-08-20
“Google clearly states that JavaScript rendering doesn't necessarily happen on the initial crawl.” — Quotation of Google's JavaScript SEO basics page
- JavaScript SEO: What Google Actually Indexes After Rendering
IndexProbe · retrieved 2026-08-20
“Google executes JavaScript with a headless Chromium and indexes the result of the render.” — lines 12-15 and 66-68
Release: seo-geo-product-v0.3 · Phase Two freeze: P2-CORE300-FINAL-v1.0 · Generated: 2026-08-23T08:01:40Z