Google Crawl Rate – Wow!
by Cheater on Oct.16, 2010, under google, internet
Well usually Google’s maximum crawl rate in Google Webmaster Tools is limited to 0.5 requests/second as the fastest rate possible with the slider.
The growth of PropertyNow however has caused that speed to increase – first to 0.8 requests/second then to 1.5 requests/second then even faster still to 2.5 requests/second.
That is the fastest I’ve ever heard of. There has been a increase in quality content, and also the server can handle the speed, so naturally Google wants to crawl it all as soon as possible and refresh it as often as possible. The logs show that they do actually push that limit but in bursts rather than constantly.
This change has also coincided with alterations of the search results. All keywords dropped temporarily during the speedy crawl period.
Very interesting stuff indeed.
January 14th, 2011 on 9:41 am
Nick,
Are you affected by the floods in Australia?