Googlebot spending too much time on my website

[anand84]

Of late I have been noticing that the Googlebot is often holding up at my site for long periods. It has been typical over the past few days to see something like this

domain name: googlebot.com
pages viewed : 11
time spent : 86 minutes

I am surprised why it is taking 86 minutes to go through just 11 pages of my site that have already been indexed previously.

Is this a good thing or a bad thing?

[tedster]

Your analytics software assumed that eleven different googlebot requests were one "user session". But if you look at the raw server logs, you'll see that each individual googlebot request was well spaced from the others and only took a few seconds at most.

I don't think you have anything to be concerned about. Google just spaced the requests that way to avoid giving your server any problems.

[anand84]

Ohw..Didn't think of that possibility. Thanks Tedster :)