AngularJS - How to check?

[Malika1]

Hi all,

I have read and understood how to make sure that a site in angularJS can be crawled and indexed by search engines efficiently.

However, I have a question around the pages and their meta data (title, description etc.). Since, headless browsers will run the code and then return the completed HTML pages, for an SEO, how it is possible to do a check on the meta data? This information wont be available in the code at first instance that SEOs can pull.

How does an SEO get the meta data information from the code of the website?

Also, how will tools like ScreamingFrog, Google Page Speed tool, Xenu etc. read websites developed in AngularJS?

[LynnPatchett]

Hi,

I don't think any of the crawlers can currently get the data you want (I have not managed it anyway) but depending on how you have things set up you can do it manually by switching the user agent of your browser to a bot and getting the rendered page/source (I use this one). Also check out the last section 'testing' in this article which suggests using SEO Tools for Excel  in combination with the escaped fragment parameter.

[Malika1]

Awesome! That's helpful!

I also heard that Screaming Frog has the capability to crawl AJAX sites but I am not sure how to utilize that data for a website built in AngularJS