Source HTML vs. Rendered HTML



Did you know the HTML coming from the server might not be what Google Search sees? Martin Splitt, Developer Relations Engineer, explores the relationship between source HTML, rendered HTML, the Document Object Model (DOM), and the rendering process. Learn how to inspect the DOM in a browser, the differences between what Google tools show when inspecting a URL and when using 3rd party view-sources, and more behind the scenes info of your browser.

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0:00 – Introduction
0:31 – What happens when your browser opens a webpage
2:27 – What are the rendered HTML and the DOM?
5:35 – How to debug your page by viewing both the source and rendered HTML
7:30 – Recap

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26 thoughts on “Source HTML vs. Rendered HTML”

  1. Subtitles are available in Portuguese, Spanish, Vietnamese, Hindi, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Indonesian, Chinese and English for this video. Click on the Settings icon in the bottom right corner of the video, and select Subtitles/CC from the menu.

  2. Excellent explanation, and it covers all aspects of HTML rendering. But I have one question if there is a high volume of images at the top and a low volume of images in the footer then how does rendering start from top to bottom or as usual from top? Or this means rendering based on image volume or from assigned functions from top to bottom.

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