Ask HN: Do search engines still not run JavaScript?

1 points by actinium226 10 hours ago

The received wisdom all over the internet is "Make your pages work without js so that search engines can properly index them"

However, we recently deployed a new version of our website that shows significantly less content with js disabled than the old version. This was an oversight that wasn't caught in time before we switched.

And yet, the search console indicates the site is being indexed just fine. We did also provide a sitemap last minute, but I'm not sure of the extent of it.

And so the obvious question comes up, do we still need Server Side Rendering/Static Site Generation in 2025? Or we can expect the search engine to execute js on our site?