Hybrid/headless crawl path is too slow
Author: Mzack9999Created Jul 17, 2026Updated Jul 17, 2026
Hybrid mode spends most of its time on the browser critical path for work that does not help discovery.
Main costs today:
- Fetch intercepts every resource (
*), then body-fetch + parse before continue. Images/fonts/media stall the page. - Only one browser is used.
-cis ignored because concurrent tabs on one Chrome break under CDP (see #1215 / #1488). - Default page-load strategy is
heuristic(WaitStable), which hangs on SPAs with continuous network activity.
Source: projectdiscovery/katana