Slow search crawling in SharePoint 2013
We have faced recently huge slowness in content sources crawling: What we have done to resolve it: 1- first make sure that you have antivirus scanning exclusion per Microsoft recommendation. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/952167/certain-folders-may-have-to-be-excluded-from-antivirus-scanning-when-y 2- Run EXEC sp_MSforeachtable 'UPDATE STATISTICS ? WITH FULLSCAN' as mentioned here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/3103194/outdated-database-statistics-decrease-sharepoint-server-performance-ca