Search Off the Record

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Search Off the Record takes you behind the scenes of Google Search and its inner workings! In each episode, the folks from the Search Relations team will give you background info on the decision-making behind launches, feature prioritization in Search Console, and the projects Google Search teams are working on. They will share fun stories from the many conferences they attend as well as from their day-to-day working life at Google. They will also dive into the currently trending conversations in the SEO community at large. Have a listen!

Are websites getting “fat”? Page weight, HTML size & Googlebot limits explained - transcript

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Mar 30, 2026

Are websites getting “fat”? Page weight, HTML size & Googlebot limits explained

Mar 30, 2026

In this episode of Search Off the Record, Gary and Martin dig into what “page size” and “page weight” actually mean for developers, users, and search engines.

They discuss exploding web page sizes: median mobile homepages hit 2.3 MB in 2025 Web Almanac (up 3x from 2015), key insights for developers on page...

Google crawlers behind the scenes - transcript

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Mar 12, 2026

Google crawlers behind the scenes

Mar 12, 2026

Developers often talk about Googlebot as if it were a single program you could just run as “googlebot.exe”, but that is not how Google’s crawling actually works. In this episode of Search Off the Record, Martin and Gary from the Search Relations team unpack how Google’s crawling infrastructure is really built...

How Browsers Really Parse HTML (and What That Means for SEO) - transcript

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Feb 26, 2026