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Did Googlebot take the summer off?

by Patrick Altoft on August 31, 2008

I don’t look at the crawl stats in Webmaster Tools very often but it seems like Googlebot has reduced it’s crawl rate significantly on BlogStorm over the summer.

Summer Crawl Rate

Has anybody else seen this?

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Matthew 31 Aug 2008 at 10:27 pm

My graphs are showing about the same amount of activity for the last few months although the last 4 or 5 weeks there has been a very slight increase but nothing too noticable. For me, googlebot is not on holiday.

David Bradley 01 Sep 2008 at 2:07 pm

Did you take a PR deranking. I noticed a reduced crawl rate on one of my sites after it was spiked from a 7 to much lower. Still ranks in the SERPs but no longer being crawled on a daily basis

Gabriel Topala 01 Sep 2008 at 4:02 pm

The “Number of pages crawled per day” and “Number of kilobytes downloaded per day” are the same for the last 3 months. The “Time spent downloading a page (in milliseconds)” is much lower in August.

Dennis 01 Sep 2008 at 7:53 pm

Perhaps it just got more efficient

Peter Young 03 Sep 2008 at 10:01 am

Activity for many of ours seems to have been lower pre-July with a significant increase moving in to August. However as Gabriel mentioned – Time spent is significantly lower from just before the end of July

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