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 ...

A Content Delivery Network (CDN) is a service that caches a web page and displays it from a data center that’s closest to the browser requesting that web page. Caching a web page means that the CDN ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Whatever the reason, AI crawlers generate orders of magnitude more than normal user request volume for sufficiently small sites. It's clearly not just directed requests hitting these sites and there ...

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 ...