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AI Crawlers Ignore JavaScript, Data Shows: Devs Must SSR
Analysis of 500M+ crawler fetches reveals major AI crawlers like GPTBot and ClaudeBot do not execute JavaScript, only fetch raw HTML. Google's crawler is the exception, rendering JS via its Web Rendering Service. Developers must server-render content to be visible to AI engines.
Meridian48 take
The data confirms that AI visibility is just good web engineering, not a new SEO playbook.
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