Google’s Gary Illyes and Martin Splitt used an episode of the Search Off the Record podcast to walk through how Google’s crawler handles HTML. The conversation revealed differences between how browsers and Googlebot process the same page.
The discussion covered resource hints, metadata placement, and HTML validation. Several of Illyes’ explanations challenge assumptions about which technical changes help with search.
Why Resource Hints Don’t Help Googlebot
Browser performance features like dns-prefetch, preload, prefetch, and preconnect solve…

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