“That’s no small number at Google scale. Google processes around 8.5 billion searches per day, so one can assume that millions of people performing searches through Google aren’t using JavaScript.”
Google now refuses search without JavaScript and calls it bot protection. Under 0.1% sounds small until you multiply by 8.5 billion searches a day. Accessibility users and SEO rank trackers broke first. Anyone scraping Google’s results now pays more to do it.