Is Framer Motion bad for SEO?

No, Framer Motion is not bad for SEO on its own. Google renders JavaScript and indexes animated pages without trouble, and the library itself adds no penalty.

Animation affects SEO indirectly, through performance. Entrance effects that start at opacity zero can hide text from crawlers if rendering fails. Heavy motion bundles add JavaScript weight, and layout-shifting animations hurt Core Web Vitals. Slow pages lose rankings whether the cause is animation or anything else.

The fixes are simple. Keep content visible in the initial HTML, animate transforms and opacity instead of layout properties, and respect prefers-reduced-motion. Test with PageSpeed Insights after adding effects. Sites using Framer Motion rank fine when the page stays fast.

For Framer sites that need ranking pages as well as smooth motion, BlazeHive publishes SEO pages to Framer every day.