Google clarifies it uses only first 15 MB of webpage for Search rankings

Tech giant Google has clarified how its Googlebot ranks pages, saying it will crawl the first 15 MB of a webpage and anything after this cutoff will not be included in rankings calculations.

Google specified in the help document that “any resources referenced in the HTML such as images, videos, CSS and JavaScript are fetched separately”.

“After the first 15 MB of the file, Googlebot stops crawling and only considers the first 15 MB of the file for indexing,” Google said.

“The file size limit is applied on the uncompressed data,” it added.

As per the report, this left some in the SEO community wondering if this meant Googlebot would completely disregard text that fell below images at the cutoff in HTML files.