Term
Crawl budget
Roughly how many pages a search engine is willing and able to crawl on your site in a given time.
VAULT 33|27 · Updated 12 November 2026 · 1 min read
What it means
Crawl budget describes how much attention a search engine gives to crawling your site, shaped by how fast your server responds and how much demand there is for your pages.
Why it matters for your business
Most small business sites never need to worry about it. It becomes relevant on large sites with thousands of pages, endless filter combinations or slow servers, where important pages can be discovered late.
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