Googlebot is Upgraded & Now Would Crawl New Websites with Less Issue
All Tech junkies are always on the lookout for new upgrades. Google just made their wish come true by introducing an upgraded GoogleBot.
Google announced on 7th May 2019 SEO agencies USA that after several requests it has made the latest version ‘evergreen’. This means that GoogleBot will be automatically updated whenever the latest version of Chrome is introduced.
Old vs New
Evergreen GoogleBot will now be operating on Chrome 74. Before this, it was using web rendering service Chrome 41 which was causing problems for websites that did not support this old version. It turned out to be a liability for newly built websites due to compatibility issues. The good news is that Chrome74 will get rid of all the previous glitches.
Goodies
This recent announcement also mentioned some of the new features of updated GoogleBot-
ES6 and newer Javascript features
Intersection Observer for lazy-loading
Web Components v1 APIs
It is not limited to these three. There are 1000+ features like these which GoogleBot will now support.
However, Martin Splitt from Google informed users in the announcement on 7th May about the limitations of the latest version. He said: “You should check if you’re transpiling or use polyfills specifically for Googlebot and if so, evaluate if this is still necessary. There are still some limitations, so check our troubleshooter for JavaScript-related issues and the video series on JavaScript SEO.”
Google claims that its latest version is enhanced and innovative as it will crawl new websites with less issue. For instance, businesses using SEO services Singapore will benefit from this new update!