In today’s Google Webmaster Office Hours, Mueller was asked whether there were crawling or indexing limitations for sites moving from HTTP/1 to HTTP/2
So at the moment, Googlebot doesn’t support HTTP/2-only crawling, so if your website is only accessible via HTTP/2 – that’s the next version of HTTP – then we wouldn’t be able to crawl that properly.
We are working on that, I suspect it will be ready by maybe the end of this year or early next year, something around that.
One of the big advantages around HTTP/2 is that you can bundle requests so if you are looking at a page and it has a bunch of embedded images, CSS, JavaScript files, those things, theoretically you can do one request for all of those files and get everything together. So that would make it a little bit easier to crawl pages when we are rendering them, for example.
If you are wanting to utilize HTTP/2, it looks as though you won’t be waiting too much longer for the support.
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