Did Googlebot take the summer off?

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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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