Record low Googlebot activity

[drall]

Anyone else noticing super low Googlebot activity the last few days? A few weeks ago we saw record high crawling, now the complete opposite with record lows over the last 4 days. Strange stuff.

[Planet13]

Actually, over the last few weeks, I have probably been seeing record high googlebot crawling. although that was preceeded by about a week of unusually low crawling.

so it seems like it has been feat or famine lately, while the year or two before that, it was pretty constant.

[dvduval]

Am I right in saying that there tends to be variations in activity near the time of a pagerank update?
(that has been my experience with limited data)

[tedster]

I don't that's the case. As Matt Cutts once said, a PR update is "pretty much a non-event". all they do is export the current PR numbers to the toolbar PR servers - and probably make a few adjustments for those TBPR devaluations we see.

In other words, no number crunching goes into updating toolbar PR so there's no resource drain.

[Planet13]

Actually, over the last few weeks, I have probably been seeing record high googlebot crawling...

I spoke too soon. googlebot has been nowhere around my sites today...

[Lame_Wolf]

Am I right in saying that there tends to be variations in activity near the time of a pagerank update?
(that has been my experience with limited data)

I do notice the same. And always seems to happen. Okay, I only have a couple of sites, but it always happens. (to me).

[SEOPTI]

Based on a huge dataset, yes the crawl rate is really slow. I saw the best crawl rate in July.

[drall]

Thanks fellas, I saw the exact same thing SEOPTI.