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Googlebot and random numbers

Testing to see what random numbers look like in Googlebot.

Both Google-InspectionTool and Googlebot always return the same sequence of numbers.

Math.random:

  1. 0.6393021999392658
  2. 0.5943970666266978
  3. 0.08336732489988208
  4. 0.3935315718408674
  5. 0.9578430985566229

crypto random:

  1. 866266943
  2. 2265860932
  3. 1996670117
  4. 3830160457
  5. 1005482941

If a page tries to randmise itself via JavaScript, every Google crawl will behave the same way.

Log

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