Burp Scanner can now crawl static sites between 6x - 9x faster
Summary: Burp Suite Professional version 2022.2.3 made Burp Scanner's crawler between 6x and 9x faster against static or stateless sites, depending on whether Burp's browser is enabled. The gain came from removing the state-tracking process from the "Fastest" crawl strategy, since that process is only needed for stateful applications where the path taken to a page changes what is found there.
What's compelling: Burp Scanner offers five crawl strategies from "Fastest" to "Most complete," and PortSwigger notes that running "Most complete" on a fully static site means waiting much longer than necessary - so the speed of your reconnaissance depends on matching the strategy to the target.
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