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14 Must-Know Tips For Crawling Millions Of Webpages - Search Engine Journal

Last updated Friday, July 8, 2022 09:45 ET , Source: NewsService

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Crawling enterprise sites has all the complexities of any normal crawl plus several additional factors that need to be considered before beginning the crawl.

The following approaches show how to accomplish a large-scale crawl and achieve the given objectives, whether it’s part of an ongoing checkup or a site audit.

1. Make The Site Ready For Crawling

An important thing to consider before crawling is the website itself.

It’s helpful to fix issues that may slow down a crawl before starting the crawl.

That may sound counterintuitive to fix something before fixing it but when it comes to really big sites, a small problem multiplied by five million becomes a significant problem.

Adam Humphreys, the founder of Making 8 Inc. digital marketing agency, shared a clever solution he uses for identifying what is causing a slow TTFB (time to first byte), a metric that measures how responsive a web server is.

A byte is a unit of data. So the TTFB is the measurement of how long it takes for a single byte of data to be delivered to the browser.

TTFB measures the amount of time between a server receiving a request for a file to the time that the first byte is delivered to the browser, thus providing a measurement of how fast the server is.

A way to measure TTFB is to enter a URL in Google’s PageSpeed Insights tool...



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