Google spotted testing version of GoogleBot that can render more content

Google may be able to fully crawl more advanced and modern web apps sooner than you thought.

We knew Google was looking to improve GoogleBot’s ability to render web pages using more advanced JavaScript or advanced web apps. Google developer advocate Martin Splitt has confirmed the test.

GoogleBot rendering more. Here is a screen shot from DeepCrawl showing what this new experimental GoogleBot can render, which is above Chrome version 69:

This is what the normal GoogleBot can render, similar to Chrome version 41:

Google confirmed. Martin Splitt from Google has confirmed on Twitter that this is indeed something Google is testing. Martin said “We’re testing things all the time and sometimes these experiments are visible.”