According to Google’s Gary Illyes, the IP address list in the Googlebot JSON file is updated within a few days after a new IP is added to the list of IPs crawled by Googlebot. “We had a few comments about whether the list was up to date. Within days, the answer was always yes,” Gary […]
Google’s John Mueller said that not all Googlebots use the same rendering engine, and indeed not all Googlebots need to render. So while the main Googlebot, the main desktop and mobile Google search crawler, does rendering and rendering JavaScript very well, not all Googlebots should. John said Mastodon When he was asked, “Does that mean […]
Googlebot is an automatic, always-on web crawling system that keeps Google’s index always up to date. website worldwebsize.com estimates that Google indexes over 62 billion web pages. Google’s search index is ‘done’ 100 million gigabytes in size. Googlebot and its variants (smartphones, news, images, etc.) have certain constraints on JavaScript rendering frequency and resource size. […]