Rendering
Rendering is the step where a browser runs a page's code to build what you finally see on screen.
In a little more detail
Some websites arrive nearly empty and assemble their text a moment later. A person never notices the difference. A machine that does not wait sees a blank page, which is how a site with excellent writing on it can be completely invisible.
Related terms
- Crawler: A crawler is a program that visits web pages on its own and copies what it finds, so a search engine or AI search can use the contents later.
- Retrieval: Retrieval is the step where AI search fetches live web pages in the middle of answering you, instead of relying only on what it already knows.
See it on your own site
The scan reads your site the way AI search does and reports where you stand on this and sixteen other checks.