In this article, we investigate the connection between certain real variable methods and the Bergman theory. We first use Hardy-type inequalities to give an \(L^2\) Hartogs-type extension theorem and an \(L^p\) integrability theorem for the Bergman kernel \(K_\Omega (\cdot ,w)\) . We then use the Sobolev-Morrey inequality to show the absolute continuity of Bergman kernels on planar domains with respect to logarithmic capacities. Finally, we give lower bounds of the minimum \(\kappa (\Omega )\) of the Bergman kernel \(K_\Omega (z)\) in terms of the interior capacity radius for planar domains and the volume density for bounded pseudoconvex domains in \(\mathbb {C}^n\) . As a consequence, we show that \(\kappa (\Omega )\ge c_0 \lambda _1(\Omega )\) holds on planar domains, where \(c_0\) is a numerical constant and \(\lambda _1(\Omega )\) is the first Dirichlet eigenvalue of \(-\Delta \) .