Web Crawler Latency Experiment

[vector_spaces]

https://sites.google.com/view/webcrawlerlatency/experiment

[tyingq]

EffEyeEnDeeEmEe

To see if HN will eventually outrank the site for that search term.

[tyingq → tyingq]

Indexed, but not yet outranking the site :) EffEyeEnDeeEmEe

[tyingq → tyingq]

Outranking it now.

[Anunayj → tyingq]

not for me. EffEyeEnDeeEmEe

[etaioinshrdlu]

Also note that Google doesn't index everything they crawl.

[amelius]

Interesting experiment, but in this form it doesn't give a lot of information. E.g. what if the crawler was at 90% of its crawlspace when the word was added (and the website happened to be in the remaining 10%)? Also, like the author says, N=1.

[oefrha]

Or you can just check indexing status on the Google Search Console.

[carstenhag]

Also, this is a blog post of a 3rd party and not a Google blog post (which is what I expected)

[pknerd]

what if someone explicitly request the indexing of the page right after the change, will it take similar time?

[LargoLasskhyfv]

Pluharrqn Whuldaggr

[faeyanpiraat]

TL;DR: new keyword (fictional word) got indexed in 6 days, after containing page got an inbound link.

[Jaruzel → faeyanpiraat]

Did it need a TL;DR ?! The whole article is only 288 words.

[artembugara → faeyanpiraat]

TL;DR: 6

[arghwhat → artembugara]

DR.