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Google Crawl Stats: 89% Refresh, 11% Discovery & lots of image crawling, is this normal?

Hey everyone,

I was checking my Google Search Console Crawl Stats report and noticed:

  • Refresh: 89%
  • Discovery: 11%

I also see that Googlebot is crawling a lot of image URLs compared to HTML pages.

I've been following Google Search Essentials and SEO best practices, including:

  • XML sitemap submitted and updated
  • Proper internal linking
  • High-quality, original content
  • Fast-loading pages
  • No intentional duplicate or thin content
  • Regular publishing

Even after following Google's guidelines, Refresh is much higher than Discovery.

A few questions:

  • Is 89% Refresh / 11% Discovery considered normal?
  • Does heavy image crawling affect crawl budget or slow down the discovery of new pages?
  • Have any of you seen similar Crawl Stats on your sites?
  • Is there anything worth optimizing, or is this just normal Googlebot behavior?

Thanks in advance for any insights!

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