Google changed the way it crawls our site - and exposed several Azure Front Door misconfigurations
A website experienced a sudden drop in Google crawl requests and increased response times due to changes in Google's crawling behavior. The site, which uses Azure Front Door, had stable performance until mid-April when response times nearly doubled. The team utilized AI to analyze Azure Front Door logs to identify the cause of the issue.
- ▪The website is hosted in the UK and primarily serves local traffic.
- ▪Google's crawling behavior changed unexpectedly, affecting site performance.
- ▪AI was employed to analyze Azure Front Door logs for troubleshooting.
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try { if(localStorage) { let currentUser = localStorage.getItem('current_user'); if (currentUser) { currentUser = JSON.parse(currentUser); if (currentUser.id === 3958585) { document.getElementById('article-show-container').classList.add('current-user-is-article-author'); } } } } catch (e) { console.error(e); } Richard Nye Posted on May 29 • Originally published at rnye.tech Google changed the way it crawls our site - and exposed several Azure Front Door misconfigurations #azure #seo Originally published at https://rnye.tech Hi all, today's post details an interesting problem that faced a website thanks to undocumented Google crawl behaviour that hit us suddenly.
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