🆚 JavaScript required vs. Meta Robots
- 📈 Meta Robots is much more popular than JavaScript required.
- 🌎 Meta Robots is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 JavaScript required is more popular in Brunei Darussalam.
Statistics based on 3.5M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
Other technology
Other technology
About
Notice on a page that 
JavaScript is required for full functionality.
Robots directives are instructions delivered through the robots meta tag or the X-Robots-Tag HTTP header that control how search engines and web crawlers index, cache, and process web content.
They can prevent pages from appearing in search results, restrict link crawling, limit cached copies and search snippets, control image previews, and are recognized by major search engines including 
Google and Bing.
Headquarters
Fremont, California, United States
Website
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Meta Robots technology is 14 times more popular than JavaScript required.
Total websites
Market share
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Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Meta Robots is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, while JavaScript required is more popular in Brunei Darussalam.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
Japan
France
Spain
Netherlands
Italy
Australia
Brazil
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Meta Robots is more popular among sites focused on business, online shopping, and blogs and wiki, while JavaScript required is more commonly used on fashion and beauty sites.
Business
Online Shopping
Blogs/Wiki
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Marketing/Merchandising
Entertainment
Travel
Health
General News
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,531,795 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.