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You might be able to check what the Googlebot executes by adding javascript to your site and checking the thumbnail.

EDIT: Removed comment about the bot's user-agent. The article links to a Google FAQ which answers the question.




They execute absolutely everything you put in Javascript; it looks exactly as it looks in Chrome. And it looks like it takes the snapshot after all the initial processing is done.

Javascript-heavy site with perfect snapshots: http://goo.gl/xNUIM

But they also index and take a snapshot of the no-javascript version: http://goo.gl/eP84M




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