{"id":405,"date":"2015-07-31T15:34:16","date_gmt":"2015-07-31T15:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raghwendra.com\/blog\/?p=405"},"modified":"2015-12-19T03:12:08","modified_gmt":"2015-12-19T03:12:08","slug":"heres-what-you-should-do-if-youve-received-this-google-warning-googlebot-cannot-access-css-and-js-files-on-xxx-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raghwendra.com\/blog\/heres-what-you-should-do-if-youve-received-this-google-warning-googlebot-cannot-access-css-and-js-files-on-xxx-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Here’s What You Should do if You’ve Received this Google Warning Googlebot cannot access CSS and JS files on xxx.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google sent out large scale warnings today alarming webmasters that GoogleBot is unable to access the CSS and JavaScript on their sites. Most of these warnings were sent via email using Google Search Console which was earlier among Google Webmaster Tools. The company also pointed out to its mail receivers that this might lead to \u2018suboptimal ratings\u2019. This has led to a lot of people who is doing optimization in major search engines<\/a> getting worried.<\/p>\n

\"Googlebot<\/p>\n

Google has been sending repeated requests to not block JS and CSS on websites for years together. In fact, a new \u2018fetch and render tool\u2019 will send you a warning if you ever happen to block these. The content of the message is as such:<\/p>\n

”<\/p>\n

Google systems have recently detected an issue with your homepage that affects how well our algorithms render and index your content. Specifically, Googlebot cannot access your JavaScript and\/or CSS files because of restrictions in your robots.txt file. These files help Google understand that your website works properly so blocking access to these assets can result in suboptimal rankings<\/em>“<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Instead of panicking, here are some steps which you can take:<\/p>\n