How to compare the classic and JavaScript versions of the website

Sometimes website content differs after JavaScript execution. For example, Google may use Dynamic rendering during a crawl. If you need to compare two versions of a website and make sure they are identical, follow the steps below.

1. Run the crawl process for your website and wait for it to complete fully.
2. Initiate another crawl process with the same settings, but enable the "Execute JavaScript" option.
3. Wait until this crawl is fully complete.
4. Go to the 'Crawls' page from the main page of your website.
5. Select two suitable crawl jobs and click on "Compare".
6. On the results page, you will see an aggregate comparison of key tags and website metrics, plus filters for detailed page and section comparison.

   

How to compare the mobile and desktop versions of the website

Sometimes website content differs by device type. If you need to compare mobile and desktop versions and make sure they are identical, follow the steps below.

1. Run the crawl process for your website and wait for it to complete fully.
2. Initiate another crawl process with the same settings, but in the Response headers section, specify User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 16_6 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/16.6 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1 or any other mobile device header.
3. Initiate the crawl process and wait for it to complete.
4. Go to the 'Crawls' page from the main page of your website.
5. Select two suitable crawl jobs and click on "Compare".
6. On the results page, you will see an aggregate comparison of key tags and website metrics, plus filters for detailed page and section comparison.