John Mueller of Google said the other day in his hangout at the 1 hour and 13 minute mark that Googlebot still is not crawling in HTTP/2. The reason it is not is because Googlebot is pretty good at crawling quickly and it wouldn’t take advantage of the same benefits a browser would benefit from with HTTP/2 he said.

Here is what John said:

That does not mean you can’t make your site HTTP/2, Google said go ahead and do that. We were however expecting Googlebot to support it sooner but I guess it is back burnered now. HTTP/2 doesn’t give your site an SEO advantage nor a super big crawl advantage yet.

Here is the video embed:

Forum discussion at YouTube.

This post was scheduled to go live today but was written earlier – I am currently offline today.