Google went through crawling, fetching, and the bytes it processes.

Google has slightly updated its Google crawlers and fetchers documentation to say that it will pick the protocol, HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2, that "provides the best crawling performance" for Googlebot. In ...

Google's March core update is rolling out. Illyes explains Googlebot's crawling architecture, and Gemini referral traffic ...

Google's Gary Illyes published a blog post explaining how Googlebot works as one client of a centralized crawling platform, ...

Google's John Mueller was asked again if a change in crawling patterns is related to Google algorithm updates. In which he said again, No, it is not. John Mueller wrote on Bluesky, "No, bigger updates ...

Tucked away in the Settings section of Google Search Console is a report few SEO professionals discuss, but I like to monitor. These reports are known as Crawl Stats. Here, you’ll find an interesting ...

Google spoke about its year-end report on the crawling challenges Google faced in 2025 when crawling and indexing the web for Google Search. The biggest challenges include faceted navigation and ...

They're not that stupid as to announce "I'm a crawler who is ignoring robots.txt" by name. Though to be clear, like most malware they are stupid enough to announce a cut/paste User-Agent that's either ...

This has happened a few times before, and it is now happening again. This is a Google issue and not an issue with your site. Google’s crawl stats report is missing a single day of crawl data, which ...