@keengrasp I believe FB and Google as well as other sites are crawling everything aggressively for content to feed AI. I have blocked "GoogleOther" and "facebook.com/externalhit" via .htaccess, and things improved dramatically.

Search is not impacted. Occasionally thumbnails on FB pointing to my site don't work right.

More here:
https://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?msg=4175762

#facebook #google #aggressivecrawling #badbehavior