The Crawl stats report, found under Settings in Search Console, records 90 days of Googlebot activity on a site: total crawl requests, total download size and average response time, broken down by response code, file type, purpose (discovery or refresh) and Googlebot type. It also reports host status for robots.txt, DNS and server connectivity.
Why Crawl Stats Report matters for SEO
It is the only place Google shows what its crawler physically did rather than what it concluded. The relationship between average response time and crawl requests is the clearest cause and effect in Search Console: when a server slows down, Google crawls less, which makes a hosting problem present as an SEO one.
Pro tip on Crawl Stats Report
Read patterns, never the headline number, which has no good value. Check host status first, then look for sustained 5xx responses, a redirect share that grew after a migration, and discovery near zero on a site that publishes regularly. Ensure robots.txt returns 200 or 404 and never a 5xx.
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