: For how long does the google bot wait after document ready before taking a snapshot of the webpage? As the google bot lets the JS do its work on the page while crawling, for how long does

@Nimeshi995

Googles bot will stick around as long as it needs to unless it times out or is stupidly slow. Regardless what the content is 5 seconds is far to slow and your site will suffer a user experience algorithm against it, which in term will effect your rankings, after-all, no one likes a slow website or page.

Rough idea on page speed:


0-1seconds awesome
1-2seconds good
2-3seconds ok
3-4seconds poor
4-5seconds very poor


In terms of the time allowance for Google's to take the snapshot there isn't one that is official, as far as I know. Unless your pages are usable within 3secs then you should fix the issue.

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