# Discovering older topics: drinking a lake through a straw

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/discovering-older-topics-drinking-a-lake-through-a-straw/310190>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Tags:** sitemap\
**Created:** [June 1, 2024, 9:51am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discovering-older-topics-drinking-a-lake-through-a-straw/310190 "2024-06-01T09:51:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Isambard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/858c86/32.png) [@Isambard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Isambard)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2024, 7:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discovering-older-topics-drinking-a-lake-through-a-straw/310190/18 "2024-06-02T07:09:14Z")

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The impact of the fixed sitemaps was immediate:

 ![This image displays a bar graph showing the number of logged in users, anonymous users, and crawlers (web scrapers) over time, with the purple bars representing a significant spike in crawler activity on the far right side of the chart. (Captioned by AI)](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/8/0/3/803e077dd15ca33ebb7f8a11f0d4d6af077858d3.png)

EDIT: just to say that the AI captioning is scarily good. I didn’t expect it to interpret the chart well!

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