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1 week ago

Google Discusses Page Weight, Average Mobile Homepage Size, and Googlebot File Limit Sizes

Growing page weight impacts user experience and Googlebot crawling, with specific file size limits set for different Googlebot types.
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fromSearch Engine Roundtable
2 weeks ago
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Google Explains Googlebot Crawling, Fetching & Limits

Googlebot consists of multiple programs and has specific limits and best practices for processing web content.
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2 months ago

Daily Search Forum Recap: January 22, 2026

Major search and AI updates include Apple using Google Gemini for Siri/Apple Intelligence, OpenAI shifting ad charges to impressions, Googlebot changes, and recipe result adjustments.
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fromSearch Engine Roundtable
3 months ago

Google JavaScript SEO Docs Now Says Non-200 HTTP Status Code Might Not Be Rendered

Google sends all pages with a 200 HTTP status code to its rendering queue; pages returning non-200 status (for example 404) may have rendering skipped.
Tech industry
fromSearch Engine Roundtable
5 months ago

Cloudflare Outage Impact On Google, Bing & Other Search Bots

Cloudflare outages return 5xx errors that make search crawlers slow and retry; temporary outages rarely cause lasting ranking damage unless they persist for multiple days.
fromSearch Engine Roundtable
5 months ago

Google Adds Chrome Web Store Google-CWS User Agent

Google added a new user agent to the Googlebot's user-triggered fetchers documentation. The new user agent is for the Chrome Web Store named Google-CWS.
Software development
fromSearch Engine Roundtable
7 months ago

Some Sites Are Seeing Crawl Rate Declines In Google Search Console

There are several posts in the Search Central Forum about this, and I just saw the issue pop up for a client. Google's Crawl Stats reporting drops heavily around 8/8. There is no impact to rankings and traffic, but all the sites posting about this see it happen on 8/8. My client is not blocking crawling of Googlebot, and Bing seems totally fine crawling-wise.
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