Google: Median Time For GoogleBot To Render Is 5 Seconds

Nov 14, 2019 - 7:23 am 1 by

Googlebot Js 5sec

Martin Splitt from Google announced at the Chrome Dev Summit 2019 that the median time for GoogleBot to render is 5 seconds. But even the 90th percentile is done "in minutes" he said. He said "you don't have to worry about week long delays" for rendering after GoogleBot crawls your page.

Ilya Grigorik from Google tweeted this, and he included the time for GoogleBot to render JavaScript applies here. He added "tl;dr: Googlebot ❤️ JS."

Here is his tweet:

This is recorded, so you can watch it yourself at 8:01:

Here is some more details:

So GoogleBot and rendering is getting super insanely fast!

Forum discussion at Twitter.

 

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