Knowledge base v2.13.0 · Community edition · data through 2 October 2026
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The Search Console tool that shows how Google sees one URL: index status, the chosen canonical, and a live test with the rendered HTML.
Glossary · URL Inspection tool
Search Console's tool that shows how Google sees a URL, including the rendered HTML; its live test can differ from the indexed version.
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Search Console's robots.txt report shows the robots.txt files Google found for the top 20 hosts of a Domain property, with their fetch status, warnings and errors; to test whether a specific URL is blocked, Google's help page points to the URL Inspection tool and to Google's open-source robots.txt library.
Google Search Console Help · Day 1 · How Google interprets robots.txt
Google's URL Inspection help says the tool's live test examines a URL in real time, so its results can differ from Google's indexed version of the page.
Google Search Console Help · Day 2 · Lightning session D: Rendering and JavaScript
Google's URL Inspection help says a valid live test only confirms that Google can access a page for indexing; the page must still meet other conditions to be indexed, such as having no manual action, not being a duplicate and being of high enough quality.
Google Search Console Help · Day 2 · What is Google friendly JavaScript
Slide and stage claims that name it, the ones Google’s documentation does not cover first.
To check whether JavaScript content is affected, open the URL Inspection tool in Search Console or the Rich Results Test and look for that content in the rendered HTML tab.
Rebecca Yu · Day 2 · Lightning session D: Rendering and JavaScript
The Day 2 poster topics included technical SEO testing in CI/CD pipelines, internal links that move rankings, Search Console's URL Inspection tool and API, getting everyone on board during complex site migrations, a CMS migration from WordPress to Contentful, the 'global Spanish' problem and going beyond prompts.
Put everything indexing depends on (title, meta description, canonical, robots meta tag, main text and links) in the raw HTML so it is available without rendering, let JavaScript add enhancements only, and check the rendered HTML in URL Inspection for the rest.
Ibrahim Anjro · Day 2 · Lightning session D: Rendering and JavaScript
When something is missing from a rendered page, check both robots.txt and the Content Security Policy: the URL Inspection live test shows the page resources, the JavaScript console output and a screenshot of the rendered page.
Ibrahim Anjro · Day 2 · Lightning session D: Rendering and JavaScript
Check rendering per template rather than per URL: inspect one URL of each page type (product, category, article) in URL Inspection and confirm that the main content, prices and internal links appear in the rendered HTML.
Ibrahim Anjro · Day 2 · Lightning session D: Rendering and JavaScript
Because Web Fragments monkey-patches core browser APIs such as document, history and location, test pages that use it in Google's rendering (the rendered HTML in Search Console's URL Inspection tool or the Rich Results Test), not only in a normal desktop browser.
Ibrahim Anjro · Day 2 · Lightning session D: Rendering and JavaScript
Because Google flattens shadow DOM when it renders, content that Web Fragments places in a shadow root can in principle be indexed with the host page, but only if it appears in the rendered HTML; check that in URL Inspection rather than relying on a library's promise of indexability.
Ibrahim Anjro · Day 2 · Lightning session D: Rendering and JavaScript
Check robots.txt for Disallow rules covering JavaScript bundles, build folders or API endpoints the page calls while rendering, including on separate API or CDN hostnames with their own robots.txt, then confirm in URL Inspection's live test that the rendered HTML contains the main content.
Ibrahim Anjro · Day 2 · What is Google friendly JavaScript
A broken canonical setup does not fail visibly: pages still load normally while the choice of URL passes to the search engine's own heuristics, so canonical tags need a regular audit with a crawler and the URL Inspection tool.
Ibrahim Anjro · Day 2 · Lightning session E: Managing Duplicates and Site Moves
Kit items about URL Inspection: their own words name it, or several of the claims they rest on do.
Rests on 7 claims, 5 of them naming URL Inspection; its own words name URL Inspection
Keep indexable content out of iframes, and check web components in the rendered HTML
Rests on 4 claims, 2 of them naming URL Inspection
Never route a crawlable URL's redirects through a URL that robots.txt blocks
Rests on 4 claims, 0 of them naming URL Inspection; its own words name URL Inspection
Verify every production host in Search Console before launch
Rests on 1 claim, 0 of them naming URL Inspection; its own words name URL Inspection
Also inglossary terms URL Inspection tool, Raw HTML and rendered HTML
Things named in the same claim, with the number of claims they share.