GLOSSARY
Crawl Budget
IN ONE SENTENCE
Crawl budget is how many requests a crawler is willing to spend on a site in a given period.
Crawl budget is how many requests a crawler is willing to spend on a site in a given period.
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In detail
The more pages a site has and the higher the share of low-value ones, the less often the important pages get fetched. This is the technical case for fewer, better pages: thousands of pages outside the range where ranking pays anything dilute crawling.
Updated 2026-08-06