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Improve this questionI’ve run into a frustrating issue with Googlebot crawling a large number of non-existent @2x image URLs like this one:
/[email protected]
These pics don't exist on my server, but Google is still trying to crawl them, and it shows a ton of 404s and inflating my crawl budget.
Here’s some info:
I'm using a custom Genesis child theme (I didn't update or change anything recently).
My active plugins (that my research shows could be causing the issue):
EWWW Image Optimizer
Jetpack Boost
WP-Optimize
I have WebP conversion enabled in EWWW.
Some of the URLs like the @2x ones are appearing in Search Console crawl stats and are flagged under "Crawl request: Not found".
When inspecting the affected pages in Search Console, I get:
"Page is not indexed: URL is unknown to Google. No referring sitemaps detected"
I did some research and found out I could disallow those images. So I added this to my robots.txt file:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /*@2x.jpg$
Disallow: /*@2x.png$
I need help figuring out what code or plugin is creating those @2x URLs and how I can stop it.
Also, is it okay to disallow @2x via my robots.txt file or is there a better way to do this?
Thanks so much in advance.