How Exelic Gadgets found 43% of Googlebot’s visits going to scripts.
Exelic Gadgets sells phones, laptops and accessories online in Kenya. Ndovu showed where Google’s crawler was spending its visits, and one change on 13 November 2026 started to move it back to the store.
- Electronics store · Kenya
- WooCommerce
- Data from 28 Oct to 14 Nov 2026
By Lawrence Kibe · 15 Nov 2026From a crawl report to a fix.
Five steps, with the numbers Ndovu showed at each one.
Where does Googlebot spend its visits?
Before adding more content, we wanted to know whether Google was crawling the products and pages people actually search for.
- Server logs since 28 Oct 2026
- Verified Googlebot only
- Search Console connected
43% of Googlebot’s requests went to APIs and AJAX.
Most of it went to the store’s visit-counting script, /wp-json/ndovu-wa/v1/events. The same report found two smaller problems.
- 33,553 verified Googlebot requests
- 30 days to 14 Nov 2026
Keep the crawl on pages people search for.
The script is not a page anyone searches for, so every Googlebot request to it is a visit not spent on a product. Comparison pages with clicks have proven demand, so they should stay.
- Block what is not a page
- Keep pages with demand
Four changes on 13 November 2026.
The script now skips known search and AI crawlers, robots.txt blocks it, the 40 comparison pages are back and the dead sitemaps are gone.
- Plugin update
- robots.txt rule
- Search Console cleanup
Down to 38%, two days in.
In the 7 days to 14 November, 38% of Googlebot’s 7,348 verified requests went to sections usually kept out of search. Only two days after the change fall in that window, so this is an early reading, not a result. We will add the full month here.
- Early reading
- Full month to follow
| Period | Requests | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 30 days to 14 Nov | 33,553 | 43% |
| 7 days to 14 Nov | 7,348 | 38% |
What to take from it.
- 01
Check where crawlers go
Server logs show requests that Search Console never lists.
- 02
Block what is not a page
Scripts and APIs belong out of the crawl, so the visits go to products.
- 03
Measure again later
Two days is not a result. Compare full months before calling it.
Lawrence Kibe
Founder of Ndovu SEO Labs. SEO manager for ecommerce, obsessed with crawl data and Search Console. Nairobi, Kenya.
About this case.
Is this a final result?
No. Only two days after the change fall in the 7-day window. We will add the full month.
Where do the numbers come from?
Ndovu Crawl Analytics, reading the store’s server logs since 28 October 2026 and checking every Googlebot request against Google’s published addresses, plus Search Console.
What is still open?
Product variations answer crawlers in 4.2 seconds on average. That is the next fix.
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