Gary Illyes says faceted navigation and action parameters dominate Google’s crawl waste, trapping bots in infinite URLs and straining servers.

Crawlers can cause your site to load slowly if you do not manage the URLs on your website properly.

Gary Illyes, along with Martin Splitt, of Google posted a podcast explaining the top crawling challenges Google noticed amongst its 2025 year of crawling. The top challenges Google had with crawling ...

Google's crawl team filed a bug against WooCommerce for add-to-cart parameters wasting crawl budget. WooCommerce fixed it. Other plugins haven't.

Some sites, hosted on some CDNs (content delivery networks), are experiencing a big spike in server response times for crawling, while seeing a drop in total crawl requests. So technically, the ...

Google updated its Googlebot documentation to clarify file size limits, separating default limits that apply to all crawlers ...

Google has sued a crawling (data extraction) firm that scrapes its search results. The move is seen as an attempt to prevent data collected through crawling from being used to train rival generative ...

Elizabeth Reid’s affidavit warns that court-ordered data sharing would expose Google's IP, invite spam abuse, and put user ...

As a marketer, you’ve spent hours adding value to your website. Now imagine a visitor drops by regularly to check what’s new and decide what’s worth showing in Google Search. That visitor? It’s called ...

Google Search did not crawl or index about two million domains hosted on SiteGround for the past two days, but that issue has been resolved. SiteGround cited a “network issue between AWS Global ...

Whatever the reason, AI crawlers generate orders of magnitude more than normal user request volume for sufficiently small sites. It's clearly not just directed requests hitting these sites and there ...