AI Crawlability Simulation

What This Check Does

This check simulates how AI crawlers experience your site by testing content accessibility with and without JavaScript execution. Heavy JavaScript dependencies can hide content from AI bots that do not render JS, making your pages invisible to AI search.

Why It Matters for AI Search

Many AI crawlers do not execute JavaScript like a browser does. If your content is loaded dynamically via JS frameworks without server-side rendering, AI bots see an empty page. This is one of the most common reasons sites score poorly in AI search visibility.

How We Evaluate

1. 1Fetch page content with and without JavaScript execution
2. 2Compare the text content available in each mode
3. 3Calculate the script-to-content ratio
4. 4Test if critical content (headings, paragraphs) is present in the raw HTML

Optimization Tips

• Implement server-side rendering (SSR) or static site generation (SSG) for content pages
• Ensure critical content is in the initial HTML, not loaded via JavaScript
• Keep the script-to-content ratio reasonable; heavy JS frameworks hurt AI crawlability
• Test your pages with JavaScript disabled to see what AI crawlers see

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