Google has confirmed it mounted a difficulty with its crawlers impacting “some websites.” The problem was “lowered / fluctuating crawling” from Google’s finish with Googlebot. It’s now resolved and Google stated the crawling ought to decide again up within the close to future.
What occurred. Beginning round August 8, 2025, quite a lot of savvy SEOs and web site homeowners began to note a drop within the crawl price from Google inside Google Search Console. I lined quite a lot of these studies on the Search Engine Roundtable however listed below are some:
Heads-up. There are a number of posts within the Search Central Discussion board about this, and I simply noticed the difficulty pop up for a shopper. Google’s Crawl Stats reporting drops closely round 8/8. There isn’t any impression to rankings and site visitors, however all of the websites posting about this see it occur on 8/8.… pic.twitter.com/6mN79X8CGs— Glenn Gabe (@glenngabe) August 27, 2025
Google confirmed. This morning, John Mueller from Google confirmed the difficulty each on Bluesky and on LinkedIn, he wrote:
“This was a difficulty on our facet, and is now resolved. It’ll catch again up routinely within the close to future. Sorry for the crawl-blip! It was lowered / fluctuating crawling from our facet, for some websites.”
Why we care. In the event you seen crawling drops in August, it ought to resolve itself over the approaching days. If it doesn’t resolve, then it may be one other subject, unrelated to this Google crawling bug.
That being stated, it’s unclear how a lot of a difficulty this induced by way of rating new content material and up to date content material. Additionally it is unclear what number of websites have been impacted.
You’ll be able to verify your crawl price in Google Search Console inside Settings after which the crawl price report. Once more, many websites, perhaps most websites, weren’t impacted by this.
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