No Java, No Content..?

[Pipistrella]

Hello Mozers!

I have a question for you: I am working on a site and while doing an audit I disabled JavaScript via the Web Developer plugin for Chrome. The result is that instead of seeing the page content, I see the typical “loading circle” but nothing else. I imagine this not a good thing but what does this implies technically from crawler perspective?

Thanks

[Pipistrella]

Hello Jimmy and Andy,

Thank you for your answers! Yes, the cached version of Google displays correctly, and the text snippets are indexed, so everything looks fine and working as it should

Thanks

[Andy.Drinkwater]

I would suspect that unless something has been done differently, that Google can read what is there, but as Jimmy said, check the page cache to see what Google can see.

You can also do a search for a snippet of text from the page and see if Google has it indexed.

-Andy

[DSM_UK]

Hi,

The best way to see what the crawlers are seeing is to check their cache.
If you to go the cached page on Google there is a text only link, through that you will be able to see exactly what content Google has cached of the page.

Usually text that appears in the source code of the page is visible to the search engines, but without knowing the what the javascript does, it is hard to say whether it would affect this.

Hope this helps.

Kind Regards
Jimmy