No content using Fetch

[MickEdwards]

Wooah, this one makes me feel a bit nervous.

The cache version of the site homepage shows all the text, but I understand that is the html code constructed by the browser.  So I get that.

If I Google some of the content it is there in the index and the cache version is yesterday.

If I Fetch and Render in GWT then none of the content is available in the preview - neither Googlebot or visitor view.  The whole preview is just the menu, a holding image for a video and a tag line for it.  There are no reports of blocked resources apart from a Wistia URL.  How can I decipher what is blocking Google if it does not report any problems?

The CSS is visible for reference to, for example, <section class="text-within-lines big-text narrow">

class="data"> some content...

Ranking is a real issue, in part by a poorly functioning main menu. But i'm really concerned with what is happening with the render.

[Vijay-Gaur]

Hi Michael,

We have faced similar issues, the main reason in our case was dynamic content being generated by Jquery, Ajax etc.  You will need a good developer to help you through if this is the case.

Also, we consider Google render and fetch as best reference to how google bot will see us.

I hope this helps

Regards,

Vijay

[MickEdwards]

I got there in the end.  They have a Wistia video loading on the homepage, but Wistia robots blocks this resource.  When the resource is blocked the CSS is loading a holding image.  However, this is configured to fill the whole page.  So therefore when googlebot crawls it cannot render anything further than this image or this defined area in CSS.  Dev is fixing.