Don&#x27;t believe the hype. Google has been saying that they can execute javascript for years. Meanwhile, as far as I can see, most non-trivial applications still aren&#x27;t being crawled successfully, including my company&#x27;s.<p>We recently got rid of prerender because of the promise from the last article from google saying the same thing [1]. It didn&#x27;t work.<p>1: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;05&#x2F;understanding-web-pages-better.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;05&#x2F;understan...</a>