Starting November 2020, Googlebot will start crawling some sites over HTTP/2

Optimising resources for crawling purposes is always a good idea, and Google has just announced that Starting November 2020, Googlebot will start crawling some sites over HTTP/2.

If your site supports only HTTP/1.1, you don’t need to make any changes just yet, as they will be trialling this on a number of sites which already support the new protocol. 

This change will possibly benefit large websites where crawling hundreds and even thousands of pages will now require fewer server resources. 

Should you prepare to migrate sooner than later?

The future is on HTTP/2 and it has many benefits for website owners, as detailed in the technical documentation at this respect available here, so this is definitely something we recommend to put in your task list for 2020.

If you have questions about HTTP/2 and how to implement this on your website, feel free to contact us, our experienced tech team will surely give you useful advice.