JavaScript: Meta Description Only in Rendered HTML

Pages that contain a meta description only in the rendered HTML after JavaScript execution.

This means a search engine must render the page to see it.

How to Analyse in the SEO Spider

Enable JavaScript rendering mode via ‘Config > Spider > Rendering’ and select ‘JavaScript’ to crawl JavaScript websites.

View URLs with this issue in the ‘JavaScript’ tab and ‘Meta Description Only in Rendered HTML’ filter, and export all URLs using the ‘Export’ button.

The ‘HTML Meta Description’ column shows the meta description found in the original HTML before JavaScript.

The ‘Rendered HTML Meta Description’ column shows the page title found in the rendered HTML after JavaScript has been processed.

Read our tutorial on ‘How To Crawl JavaScript Websites‘.

What Triggers This Issue

This issue is triggered when pages include a meta description only in the rendered HTML after JavaScript execution, with no meta description present in the raw HTML.

How To Fix

While Google is able to render pages and see client-side only content, consider including important content server side in the raw HTML.