Crawlers can cause your site to load slowly if you do not manage the URLs on your website properly.

Gary Illyes, along with Martin Splitt, of Google posted a podcast explaining the top crawling challenges Google noticed amongst its 2025 year of crawling. The top challenges Google had with crawling ...

Google is working on crawling fewer pages and reducing data consumption. Google previously revealed crawling decisions are dynamic and based on different factors. Improving content quality is vital to ...

If Google suddenly crawls your site a lot, it may indicate problems. Problems could include unnecessary crawling of infinite spaces or hacking. Google's Gary Illyes highlights these issues in a ...

Google made two announcements on Wednesday in its Search Central Blog. One introduced a dashboard tool for users to understand the most current status of systems that impact Search — crawling, ...

Google's extensive web crawling capabilities, significantly exceeding competitors like OpenAI, Microsoft, Anthropic, and Meta ...

Google's John Mueller said that there is no persistent shortcut to faster crawling. Yes, you can expedite crawling for specific situations and times, but there is no way to just tell Google you want ...

Google Search did not crawl or index about two million domains hosted on SiteGround for the past two days, but that issue has been resolved. SiteGround cited a “network issue between AWS Global ...

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 ...

Google Docs users can breathe a sigh of relief. Their documents are not as public as previously feared, with the tech giant reportedly confirming that they are not considered “publicly available” for ...