Google has finally done away with the crawl rate setting within the legacy Google Search Console. It now redirects to the blog post about the feature going away.
A couple of months ago, Google told us the crawl rate setting is going away. And it did. The legacy feature to control how fast Google crawls your website went away on January 8, 2024, as Google said.
That feature launched 15 years ago but Google never migrated it to the new version of Search Console. Gary Illyes from Google said, “with the improvements we’ve made to our crawling logic and other tools available to publishers, its usefulness has dissipated.”
Glenn Gabe spotted it going away yesterday:
The crawl rate settings page now redirects to Google's blog post about the removal. Just a heads-up that 1/8 is here. 🙂 https://t.co/bBJyPABRRm
— Glenn Gabe (@glenngabe) January 8, 2024
The crawl rate settings page now redirects to Google's blog post about the removal. Just a heads-up that 1/8 is here. 🙂 https://t.co/bBJyPABRRm
If you try to use the old tool, it will redirect you. Here are old screenshots of it:
Here is how it looked when it launched:
Forum discussion at X.
The content at the Search Engine Roundtable are the sole opinion of the authors and in no way reflect views of RustyBrick ®, Inc
Copyright © 1994-2024 RustyBrick ®, Inc. Web Development All Rights Reserved.
This work by Search Engine Roundtable is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License. Creative Commons License and YouTube videos under YouTube’s ToS.
