After waiting a couple of days, the Googelbots are now hitting my site with some intensity. My site's got a lot of content (> 3m pages) and, thus, for me the big issue is how many pages get read during the Deep Crawl. That said, there was a time not that long ago when the Googlebots would crawl as many as two pages per second (for two or more days). Now, however, they seldom read in more than a page every two seconds (for four or five days). And while it's possible that Google's just less interested in my site, I can't help but wonder whether the Googlebots have become kinder, gentler creatures as they've matured. Thus, in pursuit of an answer, I'd be interested to know just how hard the Googlebots are hitting others' sites, particularly those with a lot of content.
