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(Entry was posted by Devin Peterso on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 03/30/2014).

My GWMT crawl stats have shown a pretty big increase in `pages crawled` over the past month.

For one of my sites, the crawl stats (GWM) have shown a pretty big increase in `pages crawled` over the past month (not to be confused with `pages indexed`, that hasn`t changed). But, traffic hasn`t changed much, the only other thing that`s different is my page speed has been improved... could there possibly be a connection? What else could I infer from this increase in Googlebot activity??
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  • Devin Peterson: For one of my sites, the crawl stats (GWM) have shown a pretty big increase in 'pages crawled' over the past month (not to be confused with 'pages indexed', that hasn't changed). But, traffic hasn't changed much, the only other thing that's different is my page speed has been improved... could there possibly be a connection? What else could I infer from this increase in Googlebot activity?
  • Steve Kilbride: It's my understanding that Google will allocate so much time to crawling your site.  ;If the site is faster, that's more pages it can crawl.  ;By extension, that means it can discover newer (to Google) pages that can now be indexed.
  • Devin Peterson: +Steve Kilbride ;Nice, that sounds good. Thanks.
  • Edwin Jonk: As an add-on. What +Steve Kilbride ;so nicely said is called crawl budget. I like this quote:

    It's not that Google will penalize you, it's the opportunity cost for dirty architecture based on a finite crawl budget.

    From ;http://www.blindfiveyearold.com/crawl-optimization
  • Lori Eldridge: Usually when Google has an algorithm update going on it increases crawling of websites. A lot of WebmasterWorld members reported crawling increased starting Mar 23 but I haven't heard if there was an update.
  • Edwin Jonk: From the expert panel in this weeks SEO Questions hangout on air on 01:57:29 into the YouTube video: https://dumbseoquestions.com/q/my_gwmt_crawl_stats_have_shown_a_pretty_big_increase_in_pages_crawled_over_the_past_month +Devin Peterson

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