That’s no small number at Google scale. Google processes around 8.5 billion searches per day, so one can assume that millions of people performing searches through Google aren’t using JavaScript.

Always test your pages using Google’s own tools and third-party resources to view the rendered HTML to make sure all your content is showing up.

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Google has updated its JavaScript SEO help document to add a new section on how to properly inject canonical link tags using JavaScript. The document says Google does not recommend using ...

Google says there’s no need to worry about JavaScript when it comes to search, as there’s nothing fundamentally different about it compared to static content. This is discussed in the latest ...

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However, relying heavily on JavaScript to render your page content and provide navigation functionality brings with it well-known risks in terms of technical SEO, indexing and linkability challenges.

Google still recommends you avoid using JavaScript for canonical tags but if you must, Google provided these recommendations.