Is Reactjs SEO friendly with google bots

Question

As I know ReactJs render at the client-side means when I fetch data from the API server need to wait until change title and meta tags. So does google wait to run JS? In other words is React with dynamic routes friendly with google/search engines?

Answer 1

Googlebot processes JavaScript web apps in three main phases:

Crawling Rendering Indexing

Googlebot crawls, renders, and indexes a page.

So while Googlebot will process JavaScript, using server-side rendering will improve page load speed and help with your search ranking. You can also use a library like React Helmet to manage changes to the document head, which also supports server-side rendering.

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Answer 2

Yes, with SERVER-SIDE RENDERING you will not face any issues with the Google crawlbots not being to able read your page content. You can implement this yourself following any tutorial or use a library such as NextJS.

I personally would suggest using NextJS, as it gives multiple optimisations and developer friendly tools out of the box, which makes your entire setup and development experience very smooth.