What is Crawl Budget?

Crawl Budget is the combination of the number of URLs Googlebot wants to crawl and the number of URLs it can crawl on a specific website within a given timeframe.

If your website has more pages than your crawl budget allows, many of your URLs will remain unindexed or will not be updated regularly in search results.

The Two Main Components

Crawl Capacity (Limit)

How many simultaneous requests Google can make without crashing your server. If your site is slow, your capacity drops.

Crawl Demand

How much Google *wants* to crawl your site. This is driven by content freshness, page popularity, and overall site authority.

Want a deeper dive?

Read our full guide on how to optimize your crawl budget for large-scale enterprise websites.

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