XF 2.2 Why are links on “Share this page” not crawlable, and how does one make them crawlable?

[Aivaras]

The Mobile section of Google PageSpeed Insights’ report for https://xenforo.com/community/ notes that the links on the “Share this page” widget are not crawlable:



I find the same issue on our website. How does one fix it?

(Interestingly, the Desktop section does not report this issue, which indicates that the problem occurs only when XenForo is accessed on a mobile device.)

 

[Jeremy P]

The issue is reported for both desktop and mobile for me. Still, the href attribute on share buttons is initialized with JS and these links aren't of any relevance or importance to search engines anyway.

 

[Aivaras]

The issue is reported for both desktop and mobile for me.

Yes, but the links on the “Share this page” are part of the SEO issue only under Mobile. (I re-analyzed https://xenforo.com/community/ just to double-check.)

Still, the href attribute on share buttons is initialized with JS […]

Thank you for the explanation!

[…] and these links aren't of any relevance or importance to search engines anyway.

I agree they are not very important; however, it is somewhat beside the point because objectively, their implementation produces a negative effect: 1) Google assesses them as not optimized for search engines, and 2) it ranks the page lower in the search results.