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Googlebot is an automatic and always-on web crawling system that keeps Google’s index refreshed.
The website worldwidewebsize.com estimates Google’s index to be more than 62 billion web pages.
Google’s search index is “well over 100,000,000 gigabytes in size.”
Googlebot and variants (smartphones, news, images, etc.) have certain constraints for the frequency of JavaScript rendering or the size of the resources.
Google uses crawling constraints to protect its own crawling resources and systems.
For instance, if a news website refreshes the recommended articles every 15 seconds, Googlebot might start to skip the frequently refreshed sections – since they won’t be relevant or valid after 15 seconds.
Years ago, Google announced that it does not crawl or use resources bigger than 15 MB.
On June 28, 2022, Google republished this blog post by stating that it does not use the excess part of the resources after 15 MB for crawling.
To emphasize that it rarely happens, Google stated that the “median size of an HTML file is 500 times smaller” than 15 MB.
Above, HTTPArchive.org shows the median desktop and mobile HTML file size. Thus, most websites do not have the problem of the 15 MB constraint for crawling.
But, the web is a big and chaotic place.
Understanding the nature of the...
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