# Vercel — How Google handles JavaScript throughout the indexing process

- Company: Vercel (vercel.com)
- Announced: 2024-07-31T13:00:00+00:00
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://vercel.com/blog/how-google-handles-javascript-throughout-the-indexing-process
- Record: https://forck.live/items/20964-how-google-handles-javascript-throughout-the-indexing-process
- Subject: v0 / AI SDK / AI Gateway

Vercel and MERJ published research analyzing over 37,000 Googlebot fetches to test common beliefs about JavaScript rendering and SEO. The study, conducted from April 1 to April 30, 2024, focused on nextjs.org and two other sites, using custom Edge Middleware to track rendering behavior. The article examines the evolution of Google's rendering capabilities and addresses myths such as 'Google can’t render JavaScript content.'

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://vercel.com/blog/how-google-handles-javascript-throughout-the-indexing-process:

> To investigate the following myths, we conducted a study using Vercel’s infrastructure and MERJ’s Web Rendering Monitor (WRM) technology. Our research focused on nextjs.org, with supplemental data from monogram.io and basement.io, spanning from April 1 to April 30, 2024.

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