Brushing up on my SEO skills - how do I check my website to see if Javascript is blocking search engines from crawling the links within a javascript-enabled drop down menu?

[MagnitudeSEO]

I set my user agent in my Chrome browser to Googlebot and I disable javascript within my Chrome settings, but then what?

[davebuts]

Hi,

You can run a crawl in Screaming Frog without JavaScript rendering enabled to see how well your site can be crawled without JavaScript.

That will be a lot faster than trying to simulate a crawl manually.

Cheers,

David

[Martijn_Scheijbeler]

What you can do is basically refresh the page and see if the menus still work. If the menu itself is still working at that point you'll know that there is no JS needed to run see the menu. The alternative is just checking in the Console to see if the code is being rendered there.