Google: Crawl Rate changes takes a day to reflect. Google Officially confirmed

Google’s John Mueller noted on a discussion forum that it might take up to a day for the crawl rate option in Google Search Console to take effect. It takes two to three days, according to official paperwork. Google uses complex algorithms If you want to slow Google from scanning your site or to establish the best crawl speed for a site,

In the discussion, Google’s John Mueller suggests, “In the search console, lower the crawl pace. It takes a day to do it…” “If the problem persists, utilise the form in the support centre to report a problem with Googlebot,” he said.

“You may remove your robots.txt blocks or cease sending error codes from step 1 two or three days later, when Google’s crawl pace has evolved,” the guide adds. That suggests it will take two to three days, but it may not.

In reality, when Googlebot is creating server difficulties, the documentation mentions “immediate relief” alternatives. Even the “immediate relief” alternatives can take up to a day for Google to notice and adjust. In any case, bear in mind that the quickest solution is to expand your server’s capacity and resources, or to stop Googlebot, which practically no one wants to do.

Google provided the ability to adjust your crawl rate to Google Webmaster Tools (now known as Google Search Console) in 2008. This is done automatically by Google based on your server’s capabilities, but you can override it. It may take up to a day for Google to transition to the new option if you use the override. Google’s John Mueller also took to Twitter then and tweeted:

The Crawl Stats report displays information about Google’s crawling activity on your website. For example, how many requests were made and when, what your server response was, and whether or not there were any availability difficulties. You may use this report to see whether Google has any server issues when indexing your site. This report is intended for experienced users. You shouldn’t need to utilise this report or be concerned about this level of crawling information if your site has fewer than a thousand pages.