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Server-side rendering

Whether your page content exists in the HTML the server sends, or is only drawn afterwards by JavaScript in the visitor's browser.

Why it matters

Google can usually run JavaScript. Most AI crawlers do not. If your text only appears after JavaScript runs, those crawlers receive an effectively blank page — and will summarise your business from nothing.

How to fix it, step by step

Developer — this one needs someone who can change the code or the hosting.

  1. 1Right-click the page and choose "View page source" — the raw HTML, not the inspector.
  2. 2Use Ctrl-F to search for a distinctive sentence you can see on the screen.
  3. 3If it is not in the source, that content is client-rendered and invisible to those crawlers.
  4. 4On React, Next.js or Vue, this is a framework setting — server-side rendering or static generation instead of client-only rendering. It is a developer change, not a plugin.
  5. 5WordPress, Shopify, Squarespace and Wix all render on the server by default; if you are on one of those and content is missing, a page-builder plugin is usually loading it in late.

How to know it worked

Your main heading and first paragraph appear in "View page source" with JavaScript disabled.

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