What Happened? Spiders gone mad

[TheRizz]

Over 136 Yandex spiders were browsing the forum at once?
Is this going to hurt?

[QuantumDay]

I created a script that submitted us with IndexNow to Bing, but that has a consequence of submitting to 2000+ links 

How to add IndexNow to your website | Bing Webmaster Toolswww.bing.com

[codeberg]

What did you break QD?

[Jonathan_Repetto]

lol more spiders than users online

[QuantumDay]

The IndexNow protocol allows website owners to instantly notify search engines whenever content is created, updated, or deleted. Participating engines share these submissions, meaning a single ping updates all of them simultaneously
Search engines that natively support and utilize the IndexNow protocol include:

• Microsoft Bing: The primary, founding supporter of the protocol. It feeds updates directly to the Bing crawler and associated AI models
• Yandex: A founding partner and the dominant search engine in Russia
• Naver: The primary search engine in South Korea
• Seznam: A popular search engine in the Czech Republic
• Yep: A privacy-focused search engine that uses the protocol for its AI models

[TheRizz]

its happened again. 260 spiders on the forum at one time. is this bullish news for the forum???

[IronQuarry]

260 Yandex spiders at once sounds dramatic, but crawler counts can look way scarier than they really are.

If pages are loading fine and the server is not struggling, it is mostly noise. Bots pile into active sites all the time. Bullish? Maybe. More like your forum suddenly became interesting enough to get indexed aggressively

[SilverSurfer51]

That depends more on server resources than the raw spider number.

If those sessions are lightweight and cached well, no big deal. If every guest hit triggers expensive queries, then 260 spiders can turn into a small denial of service without meaning to.

[Taker00]

Part of me loves the idea that somewhere a search engine decided your forum is the hottest place on the internet this week

But seriously, crawler bursts happen. Check logs, response times, and crawl frequency before celebrating or panicking.

[HeartbreakKidStuart26]

People see spider counts and imagine 260 separate machines hammering the forum.

Sometimes it is just lots of concurrent fetches spread across indexing jobs. Weird looking stats are not always signs of danger.

[Pixel Jay]

Would not call it bullish news yet.

Search engines sometimes spike activity after discovering new content patterns, sitemap changes, or recovering missed pages. Traffic from actual humans is the better metric to celebrate

[Lion42]

That is either excellent visibility or your forum accidentally opened a portal to crawler dimension.

Watch CPU, database load, and bandwidth. Those numbers tell the real story, not the online list.

[JayJ]

Seen forums show giant spider counts and nothing happened afterward.

The bigger question is whether pages became slower for members. If users notice lag, that is when action becomes worthwhile.

[Jackson77]

260 spiders sounds less like indexing and more like a convention.

Someone should put out refreshments and a badge desk

[Freddie]

Could also be worth checking whether the forum exposes too many crawlable URLs.

Pagination loops, calendar views, search pages, and weird parameters can make bots go wandering endlessly.

[ParallelSelf99]

Funny thing is people spend years trying to attract search traffic, then panic when search engines finally show up

Provided the server handles it, discovery is generally a good sign.

[Forge45]

Not convinced this means popularity.

Search bots can waste tons of effort crawling pages nobody visits. Indexing activity and community growth are not the same thing.

[Connor97]

A sudden jump makes me think something changed recently.

New sections, a sitemap update, permissions opening guest access, or more internal links can trigger crawler explosions.

[EthanHinds]

That number would have looked terrifying years ago.

Modern crawlers are way more parallel and aggressive than people expect, especially if the site responds quickly.

[TheRizz96]

If the forum stayed stable through 260 concurrent spiders, that is actually a decent stress test.

No benchmark tool required

[Amy96]

Would check robots rules before anything else.

Sometimes crawlers are allowed into areas that bring zero value and create unnecessary load.

[Pixel Mark]

There is something amusing about calling them spiders when they are basically automated tourists.

They arrive, stare at everything, leave, and maybe come back with friends.

[Solo Buffer]

Yandex can get enthusiastic with crawling behavior from time to time.

As long as requests look legitimate and not spoofed, this does not automatically mean trouble.

[QubitZero13]

One thing worth watching is database connections.

Web servers often survive crawler spikes better than databases do. That is usually where weird slowdowns appear first.

[DotEXE]

Could be temporary recrawling after detecting updates.

If it settles down in a day or two then nothing special happened. If it keeps climbing, then start tuning.

[Pete14]

Plot twist: the spiders have formed a community and are now discussing forum performance in their own thread somewhere

At 500 spiders you unlock the secret achievement.