JavaScript is the lingua franca of the web, the standard way of building applications that run inside the browser. Created in the mid-'90s by an engineer at Netscape—the company that first pushed the ...

Google debuted version 2.0 of its Octane benchmark suite today, a set of 17 tests that measure how fast a browser can execute JavaScript code. The addition of asm.js is a pretty interesting move for ...

Google has made a change to how it’s search results are served which will also help to secure it against bots and scrapers. Whether this will have further effect on SEO Tools or if they can use a ...

Google has begun requiring users of its search engine to turn on JavaScript, a programming language that makes web pages interactive. The company said it protects ...

The good news is, there's plenty of choice with Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari, Opera, Vivaldi, and even Internet Explorer offering support and JavaScript turned on by default. Google doesn't see this ...

Google is getting better and better at indexing JavaScript. But delays in indexing are still a massive issue. Here's what you can do. With Googlebot running on the most recent version of Chrome and ...

Google announced it was retiring its Octane JavaScript benchmark, saying most of its tests are outdated and contained bugs that allowed browser developers to cheat and obtain higher scores than ...

Google has added a single "note" to the create crawlable links help documentation to say that links generated by JavaScript, where the link is visible, can be crawled by Google. Google added this line ...

Google updated its JavaScript SEO best practices document with a new section on how to set the canonial URL when using JavaScript. Google wrote, "The best way to set the canonical URL is to use HTML, ...

A 41-day experiment reveals how JavaScript-only navigation limits AI crawler discovery and why fixing it later can be harder.

Now, you can do the same crazy user interface stuff Google does on sites like Gmail and Google Docs on your own website. It's often hard to remember, but when Gmail first arrived on the scene in 2004, ...