

The list of currently used IP address blocks used by That a site is blocking requests from the United States, it may attempt to crawl from IPĪddresses located in other countries. Googlebot crawls primarily from IP addresses in the United States. If your site is having trouble keeping up with Google's crawling requests, you can Is to crawl as many pages from your site as we can on each visit without overwhelming your Show visits from several IP addresses, all with the Googlebot user agent. Also, to cut down on bandwidth usage, we run manyĬrawlers on machines located near the sites that they might crawl.

Googlebot was designed to be run simultaneously by thousands of machines to improve However, due to delays it's possible that the rate will appear to be slightly higher As such the majority of Googlebot crawl requests will be made using the mobileĬrawler, and a minority using the desktop crawler.įor most sites, Googlebot shouldn't access your site more than once every few seconds onĪverage. Robots.txt, and so you cannot selectively target either Googlebot Smartphone or Googlebot However, both crawler types obey the same product token (user agent token) in You can identify the subtype of Googlebot by looking at the Googlebot is the generic name for Google's two types ofĪ desktop crawler that simulates a user on desktop.Ī mobile crawler that simulates a user on a mobile device.
