{"id":11897,"date":"2022-01-14T13:24:52","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T13:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4sightgroup.flywheelsites.com\/blog\/crawl-budget-in-seo-what-it-is-and-how-to-optimise-it\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T13:23:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T11:23:29","slug":"crawl-budget-in-seo-what-it-is-and-how-to-optimise-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/4sight.group\/en-cy\/blog\/crawl-budget-in-seo-what-it-is-and-how-to-optimise-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Crawl Budget in SEO: what it is and how to optimise it?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Crawl budget is the amount of resources Google allocates to crawling a website over a given period. It determines how often and how extensively Googlebot crawls a site\u2019s URLs. It is mainly relevant for large websites, where optimising crawlable URLs, server performance, internal links, sitemaps, redirects and duplicate content can help Google discover important pages efficiently.<\/p>\n

What is the crawl budget?<\/h2>\n

The crawl budget, as the word itself says, is a real budget, in terms of resources, that Google dedicates to crawl the pages of our site<\/strong> and then add them to its index.<\/p>\n

From a business point of view, the practical activity of periodically scanning the billions of websites on the internet to monitor any updates and changes, represents a cost for Google. It is therefore clear that it tries to optimise and minimise these costs by dedicating different resources to each website<\/strong> based on a series of factors.<\/p>\n

We can therefore say that the crawl budget can be defined as the number of times<\/strong> Google downloads and crawls our files, pages and images in a given period of time<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

There may be sites that are visited by the Google bot every day, several times a day and sites that are crawled once a week or a month. The higher the crawl budget, the more the site matters for Google and deserves to be crawled.<\/p>\n

How important is it to monitor the crawl budget?<\/h2>\n

Typically, for a small 10-15-20 page corporate site, the crawl budget is not an important issue, it can be important though, in the presence of large sites such as eCommerce with thousands of products, but also blogs and editorial sites with thousands of articles. In this case it makes sense to know how to manage this budget, what to scan and when and what not.<\/p>\n

The situations in which the crawl budget can generally be “ignored” are:<\/strong><\/p>\n