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🚨 Source code vs rendered HTML: Critical Differences you must know
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Critical knowledge alert 🚨🚨🚨 As a technical SEO, it’s crucial you know the difference between source code and rendered HTML them. Why is it important for SEO?Now, here’s the thing: Google uses the rendered HTML of your page to evaluate this page’s optimization. It means that if you’re only relying on the source code for your SEO efforts, it’s easy to miss many important things. In the next newsletter next Wednesday, I'll show you the tools that will help you see the rendered HTML of the page. Grab this free resource 👇 |
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I'll help you trade an imposter syndrome for a technical SEO superpower. My mission is to break down and simplify complex technical SEO things so that you can understand and use them to advance your SEO career.
Do you know what the Critical rendering path is? It’s what your browser goes through in order to build a beautiful usable page from your source code. It requires communication between the server and browser: Steps to render a page in a browser (Critical rendering path) Begin constructing the DOM by parsing HTML incrementally Request CSS and JS files Parse CSS and construct CSSOM Execute JS, build a render tree Merge Document and CSS Object Models Run layout and paint Optimizing critical...
This shouldn’t come as a surprise to you: Google uses rendered HTML of your page to evaluate the page’s optimization. First, let’s make sure we’re on the same page here. What is rendered HTML? Rendered HTML is displayed after CSS and JavaScript are processed. It means that if you’re only relying on the source code for your SEO efforts, it’s easy to miss many important things that can be altered by JavaScript, such as: Rewritten title tag A sneaked noindex tag A removed canonical Added/removed...
JavaScript is a great option to make website pages more interactive and less boring. But it’s also a good way to kill a website’s SEO if implemented incorrectly. Tired Oh No GIF by Law & Order That’s why, as a technical SEO, you need to be comfortable debugging JavaScript issues. Here’s how you do it in 3 steps 👇👇👇 Step 1: Disable JavaScript in the browser using Web Developer Chrome extension The easiest way to do it is to disable JavaScript in your browser. I use the Web Developer Chrome...