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Rule · robots.txt

Resources needed for rendering are crawlable

SEO-ROBOTS-05BC2 Recommended· w4

Class
C2 Recommended
Weight
4
Severity on fail
major
Applies to
Google

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Scope and evidence

Evaluated on page (P). The book marks this requirement DOCUMENTED RECOMMENDATION, SEARCH-ENGINE-SPECIFIC.

Fail conditions

Each condition has a stable code and a reason template. The evaluator fills the placeholders from observed values only; no sentence in a report is generated.

  • resources_disallowed

    {n} resources used to render {url} are disallowed for Googlebot, for example {example} by {rule}. Google recommends letting it crawl the resources needed to render a page, and says not to block them if their absence makes the page harder to understand.

The documented fix

Allow the CSS, JavaScript and image paths that templates load.

Sources, quoted

These are the passages the rule rests on, stored once in the knowledge base and emitted exactly as written. A citation marked for specific conditions appears only on findings with those codes.