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Technical SEOUpdated Nov 6, 2026

What is Crawl Budget?

Definition

Crawl budget describes how many URLs a search engine is able and willing to crawl on a site within a period.

Also known as:crawl capacity

Who should care

Most small sites do not need to worry about it. It matters more on large sites with many filtered URLs, redirect chains or thin pages that waste a crawler's time.

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