There are quite a few complaints from SEOs and web site house owners who’re noticing important declines in crawl charges inside Google Search Console. Most who see this, many don’t by the way in which, are noticing the decline begins round August eighth and continues via in the present day.
UPDATE: Google’s John Mueller confirmed it was a difficulty on Google’s finish:
This was a difficulty on our aspect, and is now resolved. It’s going to catch again up mechanically within the close to future. Sorry for the crawl-blip!
— John Mueller (@johnmu.com) August 28, 2025 at 9:25 AM
He added on Bluesky, “It was diminished / fluctuating crawling from our aspect, for some websites.” So not only a reporting concern however an precise crawling concern.
I’ve been listening to about a few of these complaints for a bit however I personally didn’t discover the declines in any of the numerous websites I’ve entry to inside Google Search Console. So this isn’t tremendous widespread however there are sufficient complaints for me to cowl it.
Whereas most websites usually are not impacted, a ton of enormous websites are. And it goes throughout a number of platforms, corresponding to Vercel, WP Engine, Fastly and others. It additionally appears to not be restricted to Google, but in addition Bing.
Glenn Gabe additionally posted about this yesterday on X and LinkedIn and wrote:
There are a number of posts within the Search Central Discussion board about this, and I simply noticed the problem pop up for a shopper. Google’s Crawl Stats reporting drops closely round 8/8. There isn’t a influence to rankings and site visitors, however all of the websites posting about this see it occur on 8/8. My shopper isn’t blocking crawling of Googlebot, and Bing appears completely tremendous crawling-wise.
Listed here are hyperlinks to some of the grievance threads on the Google Webmaster Assist boards. Listed here are additionally a few of these charts from the boards:
However some are from extra not too long ago, on August 20,, like this one on X:
And these on X:
These appear to be impacting of us who use particular platforms like Vercel, WP Engine, Fastly however I’m not positive if this can be a Google concern or a platform concern? I believe these platforms had been requested about it and stated all is sweet on their finish.
Actually, Vercel’s CTO, Malte Ubl wrote on X this morning, “There was a serious occasion the place the worldwide Googlebot crawl charge dropped by 30%. It manifested in a means the place crawling to a comparatively small variety of massive websites dropped to close 0. Conduct was restored on Google’s aspect and crawling is again to baseline https://bots.fyi/d/googlebot.”
He shared this chart:
So perhaps it was on Google’s aspect?
Listed here are different platforms that had been perhaps impacted.
Replace, all of them are internet hosting on WP Engine
— Dhruv Pandya (dp) (@dhruvpandyadp) August 25, 2025
Fast replace. Looks like the frequent thread for this concern is Vercel. I had a number of folks on LinkedIn clarify they’re seeing this throughout Vercel shoppers. My shopper additionally makes use of Vercel. After which one individual posted an trade with Vercel assist on my LinkedIn publish about this (the place… https://t.co/hFct77SaGm
— Glenn Gabe (@glenngabe) August 27, 2025
Yeah, it was solely impacting a small variety of massive websites general (However 30% of Googlebot throughout our community is rather a lot; we’re seeing 200-300 million requests from Googlebot per day)
Dropped to 0 on August ninth, and got here again up yesterday
— Malte Ubl (@cramforce) August 28, 2025
Ah, attention-grabbing. I will publish updates on my shares about this from yesterday. I’ve had fairly a number of web site house owners pinging me about drops after I shared in regards to the crawling drops. And never all had been utilizing Vercel, in order that is sensible.
— Glenn Gabe (@glenngabe) August 28, 2025
One thing certainly occurred with the Googlebot in current weeks – In Cloudflare Radar, the Googlebot HTTP requests from August 17-26 present an necessary improve: https://t.co/lhxEykp2qb
cc @cramforce @rustybrick https://t.co/fmDvbRSyKI pic.twitter.com/jYoiqZNjFL
— Aleyda Solis 🕊️ (@aleyda) August 28, 2025
This appears to indicate it is verified pic.twitter.com/d05PCypua0
— Pedro Dias (@pedrodias) August 28, 2025
Right here is that chart from Cloudflare:
It’s exhausting to say what’s connecting all of this? Vercel, Fastly, WP Engine, not simply Google however Bing. What’s the sample right here?
No matter occurred, appears additionally current on Bing Bot behaviour… https://t.co/I12QwD25es pic.twitter.com/0uHG2qcY2p
— Pedro Dias (@pedrodias) August 28, 2025
We spent quite a lot of time taking a look at it. We had been capable of exclude all types of points.
Most probably rationalization is a few form of sudden habits of the crawl system. Aka a bug
— Malte Ubl (@cramforce) August 28, 2025
It’s exhausting to know who this impacted and didn’t influence however verify your crawl stats report back to see in case you had been impacted. I imply, undecided this impacted rankings a lot however hey.
Discussion board dialogue at threads above.
UPDATE: Google’s John Mueller confirmed it was a difficulty on Google’s finish:
This was a difficulty on our aspect, and is now resolved. It’s going to catch again up mechanically within the close to future. Sorry for the crawl-blip!
— John Mueller (@johnmu.com) August 28, 2025 at 9:25 AM
He added on Bluesky, “It was diminished / fluctuating crawling from our aspect, for some websites.” So not only a reporting concern however an precise crawling concern.
This story was initially printed at 7:11 am ET however was up to date with Google’s assertion at 9:30 am ET.
