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There have been an ongoing discussions over the past few weeks across social media that Googlebot has dramatically reduced its crawling. For example, the founder of a web crawl analysis service tweeted a graph showing how Google’s crawl activity has declined since November 11, 2021.

Although the indexing slowdown doesn’t affect all sites, many on Twitter and Reddit agree that something changed at Google with respect to indexing and prove it with screenshots of Googlebot activity.

Evidence of Reduced Crawling

Anecdotal evidence of Google crawling anomalies have been stacking up on social media. The problem with social media is that one can literally make any observation about Google and nearly be guaranteed to receive agreement.

Anecdotal is interesting but not as good as data backed observations, which is what appeared recently on Twitter.

A founder of crawler and log analysis service Seolyzer (@Seolyzer_io) posted a graph of Google crawling behavior that showed a dramatic drop off of crawling activity beginning on November 11th.

He posted:

“Googlebot is on strike! Googlebot has drastically reduced its crawl activity on many large sites since November 11 at 6PM (GMT).”

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