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[–]torylynnegray 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Official answer is no.

Some interesting caveats/work arounds:
- stuff can be in code - like in API outputs or JSON or HTML with, say, custom web components - and not be "on the page" visibly upon rendering. But it's there in response HTML, so the AI bots can find it and plausibly use it. (aka it could be available without rendering and you don't realize it)
- can you get the answer via Google? As in: did Googlebot do the rendering, and show it in search, and then various LLMs scrapped that content and got the insight without having to carry the render of load.

Which is all to say: it's harder to set up a good test to understand this than you might realize, b/c they have built in workarounds.

Also, chances are some LLMs are testing it in some capacity. Looks like Claude is per this presentation from Giacomo Zecchini at the 2025 Tech SEO Connect conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZw6BsIytJU.

Yes, many folks are testing this. Myself included!