WARNING: Error while getting Bing SEO stats: curl_exec: Operation timed out after 10000 milliseconds with 10171 bytes received. Hostname requested was: www.bing.com

Hello Word,

I manage a high demand matomo site and today (September 19th, 2019), within the administrative area I found a warning message in orange, which literally says: “WARNING: Error while getting Bing SEO stats: curl_exec: Operation timed out after 10000 milliseconds with 10171 bytes received. Hostname requested was: www.bing.com

I didn’t find anything about it for version 3.11.0 which is the last one released.

Anybody knows what could be the problem?

cheers,

Hi,

The error is exactly what it says: The Matomo SEO plugin (the one that provides the dashboard plugin) is not that sofisticated, but instead simply fetches the google and bing search page to see the number of results.
But if you make too many requests, Bing and Google will block your IP or throttle the requests.

So honestly the easiest way to avoid this would be to disable the SEO plugin if you don’t need it.