Can bots crawl this homepage's content?

[nhhernandez]

The website is https://ashleydouglas.com.au/

• I tried using http://www.seo-browser.com/ to see if bots could see the content on the site, but the tool was unable to retrieve the page.
• I used mobile-friendly test and it just rendered some menu links - no content and images.
• I also used Fetch and Render on Search Console. The result for 'how google sees the page' and 'how a visitor sees the page' are the same and only showing the main header image. Anything below isn't shown.

Does this mean that bots can't actually read all content on the page past the header image?

I'm not well versed with what's going on with the code. Why are the elements below the header not rendering? Is it the theme? Plugins?

Thank you.

[ThompsonPaul]

Yea, you need to believe those tools, Nikki. In particular, if you click on the Page Loading Issues View Details in the mobile-friendly test, you'll see that there are errors with pretty well all the scripts on the page. And GSC's Fetch and Render is literally what the search crawler can see and process, so if it's not happy...

When I first visited the page, all I saw was the header and the footer as well.

Here's what I think is happening. Pretty well all the content on the page is being loaded with animations, which are JavaScript-based. You have RocketLoader enabled in CloudFlare which is known to cause havoc with JavaScript. (It takes over how JavaScripts get loaded on the page, but often doesn't handle it well). So I suspect that RocketLoader is interfering with the scripts that the page is depending on to display the animated content blocks.

Try turning off RocketLoader from within your Cloudflare settings, clear ALL caches for the site (CloudFlare's cache and any site/server-level caches), and check again.

Good luck! And let me know if that resolves it.

Paul

P.S. I'd recommend seriously reconsidering all that content animation on the page. All that "dancing macaroni" really interferes with the efficient reading of the page. Animation is supposed to be used to draw extra attention to one specific important thing on a page. When everything is wiggling and moving, nothing gets emphasised, and it's all just a major distraction and makes scanning the content nearly impossible.

[nhhernandez]

Thanks, Paul! We'll try disabling RocketLoader.