Why Search Console's live test shows a different page on Base44

On a Base44 site, Search Console’s Test live URL button and Google’s Rich Results Test don’t fetch your page the way Googlebot does. They use a user agent called Google-InspectionTool, and Base44 doesn’t pre-render for it. So the live test shows Base44’s hidden, auto-generated summary of your app, even when Googlebot receives the full rendered page. Read View crawled page on the indexed result instead.

What you’ll see#

In the live test’s HTML view, a Base44 page looks roughly like this:

• A heading such as “Pricing | YourApp”.
• A sentence like “Pricing on YourApp.” followed by your app description.
• A “Pages” list with every page in your app.

That’s Base44’s seo-snapshot block, the fallback it serves when it isn’t pre-rendering. The snapshot guide explains where the text comes from.

Why it happens#

Base44 decides whether to pre-render by user agent. In our tests on live Base44 pages, Googlebot’s user agent got the rendered page, and Google-InspectionTool’s user agent always got the summary, on the same pages, from the same address. GoogleOther, another Google user agent, got the summary too. The full split is in the crawler list.

How to read Search Console on a Base44 site#

So:

1. Use the indexed result for what Google has. Open View crawled page → HTML and search for a sentence that only exists in your page’s real copy. Found: Googlebot got the render. Missing, with a “Pages” list instead: the crawl got the summary.
2. Use the live test for other checks only, like whether the page is reachable, returns 200 and isn’t blocked by robots.txt.
3. Use your own request to see what Base44 sends Googlebot right now:

curl -s -A 'Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)' \
  https://yourdomain.com/pricing | grep -c 'id="seo-snapshot"'
# 0 = rendered page, 1 = summary

Validating structured data#

The Rich Results Test’s URL mode has the same problem. Schema Base44 injects into the page head usually still shows, since it’s in every response. Schema your page adds after loading is only in the render. Test it this way:

curl -s -A 'Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)' \
  https://yourdomain.com/product?id=abc > page.html
grep -c 'id="seo-snapshot"' page.html   # make sure this prints 0

Then paste page.html into the Rich Results Test’s Code option.

What to do next#

1. Stop reading the live test’s HTML as Googlebot’s view.
2. Check View crawled page on your five most important pages.
3. If they show the summary, read the pre-rendering options.