{"id":25665,"date":"2026-09-06T00:46:37","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T21:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/optimize-your-crawl-budget\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T00:50:40","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T21:50:40","slug":"optimize-your-crawl-budget","status":"publish","type":"ar_kb","link":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/optimize-your-crawl-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Optimize your crawl budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  This guide describes how to optimize Google&#8217;s crawling of very large and frequently updated sites.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  If your site doesn&#8217;t have a large number of pages that change rapidly, or if your pages seem<br \/>\n  to be crawled the same day that they are published, you don&#8217;t need to read this guide. For Google<br \/>\n  Search specifically,<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/build-submit-sitemap\/\" class=\"external-link\">keeping your sitemap up to date<\/a> and<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/webmasters\/answer\/7440203\" class=\"external-link\">checking the Page Indexing report<\/a><br \/>\n  regularly is adequate.\n<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"who-this-guide\" tabindex=\"-1\">Who this guide is for<\/h2>\n<p>\n  While the recommendations in this guide are generally good practices, this is an advanced guide<br \/>\n  intended primarily for the following types of sites:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n    Large sites (1 million+ unique pages) with content that changes moderately often (once a week)\n  <\/li>\n<li>\n    Medium or larger sites (10,000+ unique pages) with very rapidly changing content (daily)\n  <\/li>\n<li>\n    Sites with a large portion of their total URLs classified by Search Console as<br \/>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/webmasters\/answer\/7440203#information-status\" class=\"external-link\">Discovered &#8211; currently not indexed<\/a>\n  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<aside class=\"note\">\n  The numbers given here are a <b>rough estimate<\/b> to help you classify your site. These are not<br \/>\n  exact thresholds.<br \/>\n<\/aside>\n<h2 id=\"general_theory\" tabindex=\"-1\">General theory of crawling<\/h2>\n<div class=\"video-wrapper\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\n  The web is a nearly infinite space, exceeding Google&#8217;s ability to explore every publicly<br \/>\n  accessible URL. As a result, there are limits to how much time and resources Google can devote to<br \/>\n  crawling any single site. The allocation of these resources is commonly called a site&#8217;s<br \/>\n  <i>crawl budget<\/i>. In this context, Google&#8217;s crawling infrastructure defines a <i>site<\/i> as a<br \/>\n  unique hostname. For example, <code>https:\/\/www.example.com\/<\/code> and<br \/>\n  <code>https:\/\/code.example.com\/<\/code> are treated as separate sites and have separate crawl<br \/>\n  budgets. A site&#8217;s crawl budget is determined by two main elements: <i>crawl capacity limit<\/i> and<br \/>\n  <i>crawl demand<\/i>.\n<\/p>\n<aside class=\"note\">\n  For Google Search, not every page that is crawled will necessarily be indexed. After crawling,<br \/>\n  each page must be evaluated,<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/specify-canonical\/\" class=\"external-link\">consolidated<\/a>,<br \/>\n  and assessed to determine its suitability for the index.<br \/>\n<\/aside>\n<h3 id=\"crawl-capacity-limit\" tabindex=\"-1\">Crawl capacity limit<\/h3>\n<p>\n  Google wants to crawl your site without overwhelming your servers. To prevent this, Google&#8217;s<br \/>\n  crawlers calculate a <i>crawl capacity limit<\/i> (also known as<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/webmasters\/answer\/9012289#site-wide-error-inspection&#038;zippy=%2Csite-wide-availability-issues\" class=\"external-link\"><i>hostload<\/i><\/a>).<br \/>\n  This limits the total amount of time your server spends holding connections open for Google,<br \/>\n  factoring in both the number of parallel connections and their duration. This ensures Google<br \/>\n  can cover all your important content without overloading your servers.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Every site starts with the same default, conservative crawl capacity limit. If there is demand to<br \/>\n  crawl more and the site remains healthy, Google&#8217;s systems will automatically adjust this limit<br \/>\n  over time.\n<\/p>\n<p>The crawl capacity limit can go up and down based on a few factors:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Crawl health:<\/b> If the site responds consistently and its response times (including<br \/>\n    latency and Time-to-First Byte) remain stable or improve, the limit goes up, meaning more<br \/>\n    connections can be used to crawl. If the site slows down (latency increases or response times<br \/>\n    become longer), or responds with server errors (<code>5xx HTTP<\/code> status codes) or<br \/>\n    rate-limiting signals (such as <code>HTTP 429<\/code>), the limit goes down and Google crawls<br \/>\n    less.\n  <\/li>\n<li>\n    <b>Google&#8217;s crawling limits:<\/b> While Google&#8217;s resources are extensive, they are finite, and<br \/>\n    we must prioritize resource allocation across the web.\n  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 id=\"crawl-demand\" tabindex=\"-1\">Crawl demand<\/h3>\n<p>\n  Each crawler has its own &#8220;demand&#8221; when it comes to crawling the web, determined by factors<br \/>\n  unique to that crawler. For example, AdsBot generally has a higher demand when a site is running<br \/>\n  dynamic ad targets, and Google Shopping has a higher demand for products you have in your merchant<br \/>\n  feeds.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  For <a href=\"https:\/\/googlebot.com\/\" class=\"external-link\">Googlebot<\/a>, demand varies based on<br \/>\n  a site&#8217;s size, update frequency, page quality, and relevance, compared to other sites. The<br \/>\n  primary factors you can influence are:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n    <b>Perceived inventory:<\/b> Without guidance from you, Google tries to crawl all or most of the<br \/>\n    URLs that it knows about on your site. If many of these URLs are duplicates, or you don&#8217;t want<br \/>\n    them crawled for some other reason (removed, unimportant, and so on), this wastes a lot of<br \/>\n    Google crawling time on your site. This is the factor that you can positively control the most.\n  <\/li>\n<li>\n    <b>Popularity:<\/b> URLs that are more popular on the Internet tend to be crawled more often to<br \/>\n    keep them fresher in our systems.\n  <\/li>\n<li>\n    <b>Staleness:<\/b> Our systems want to recrawl documents frequently enough to pick up any<br \/>\n    changes.\n  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n  Additionally, site-wide events like site moves may trigger an increase in crawl demand in order<br \/>\n  to reprocess the content under the new URLs.\n<\/p>\n<aside class=\"key-point\">\n  While each crawler has a different <i>crawl demand<\/i>, the <i>crawl capacity limit<\/i> is shared<br \/>\n  across all crawlers. This means that high demand from one crawler can reduce the capacity<br \/>\n  available for others.<br \/>\n<\/aside>\n<h3 id=\"summary\" tabindex=\"-1\">Summary<\/h3>\n<p>\n  Taking crawl capacity and crawl demand together, Google defines a site&#8217;s crawl budget as the set<br \/>\n  of URLs that Google can and wants to crawl. Even if the crawl capacity limit isn&#8217;t reached, if<br \/>\n  crawl demand is low, Google will crawl your site less.\n<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"best_practices\" tabindex=\"-1\">Best practices<\/h2>\n<p>To maximize your crawling efficiency, follow these best practices:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li id=\"manage_inventory\">\n    <b>Manage your URL inventory:<\/b> Use the appropriate tools to tell Google which pages to crawl<br \/>\n    and which not to crawl. If Google spends too much time crawling URLs that it shouldn&#8217;t, Google&#8217;s<br \/>\n    crawlers might not explore the rest of your site, or might not increase your crawl budget.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n        <b><a href=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/specify-canonical\/\" class=\"external-link\">Consolidate duplicate content<\/a>.<\/b><br \/>\n        Eliminate duplicate content to focus crawling on unique content rather than unique URLs.\n      <\/li>\n<li>\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/troubleshoot-google-search-crawling-errors\/#hide_urls\" class=\"external-link\"><b>Block crawling of URLs using robots.txt<\/b><\/a>.<br \/>\n        Some pages might be important to users, but you don&#8217;t necessarily want them to appear on<br \/>\n        Google surfaces or get reprocessed by Google&#8217;s systems. Examples include infinite scrolling<br \/>\n        pages that duplicate information on linked pages, or differently sorted versions of the same<br \/>\n        page. If you can&#8217;t consolidate them as described in the first bullet, block these<br \/>\n        unimportant pages using<br \/>\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/how-to-write-and-submit-a-robots-txt-file\/\">robots.txt<\/a>. Blocking URLs with<br \/>\n        robots.txt prevents Google from crawling them, and significantly decreases the chance the<br \/>\n        URLs will be processed by other Google systems (such as getting indexed by Google Search).<\/p>\n<aside class=\"caution\">\n          <b>Don&#8217;t use <code>noindex<\/code><\/b>, as Google will still request, but then drop the<br \/>\n          page when it sees a <code>noindex<\/code> <code>meta<\/code> tag or header in the HTTP<br \/>\n          response, wasting crawling time.<br \/>\n          <b>Don&#8217;t use robots.txt to temporarily reallocate crawl budget<\/b> for other pages; use<br \/>\n          robots.txt to block pages or resources that you don&#8217;t want Google to crawl at all. Google<br \/>\n          won&#8217;t shift this newly available crawl budget to other pages unless Google is already<br \/>\n          hitting your site&#8217;s crawl capacity limit.<br \/>\n        <\/aside>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n        <b>Return a <code>404<\/code> oder <code>410<\/code> status code for permanently removed pages.<\/b><br \/>\n        Google won&#8217;t forget a URL that it knows about, but a <code>404<\/code> status code is a<br \/>\n        strong signal not to crawl that URL again. Blocked URLs, however, will stay part of your<br \/>\n        crawl queue much longer, and will be recrawled when the block is removed.\n      <\/li>\n<li>\n        <b><a href=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/troubleshoot-google-search-crawling-errors\/#soft-404-errors\" class=\"external-link\">Eliminate <code>soft 404<\/code> errors<\/a>.<\/b><br \/>\n        <code>soft 404<\/code> pages will continue to be crawled, and waste your budget. Check the<br \/>\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/webmasters\/answer\/7440203\" class=\"external-link\">Page Indexing report<\/a><br \/>\n        for <code>soft 404<\/code> errors.\n      <\/li>\n<li>\n        <b>Keep your sitemaps up to date.<\/b> Google reads your sitemap regularly, so be sure to<br \/>\n        include all the content that you want Google to crawl. If your site includes updated<br \/>\n        content, we recommend including the <code>&lt;lastmod&gt;<\/code> tag.\n      <\/li>\n<li>\n        <b>Avoid long redirect chains<\/b>, which have a negative effect on crawling.\n      <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n    <b><a href=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/troubleshoot-google-search-crawling-errors\/#improve_crawl_efficiency\" class=\"external-link\">Make your pages efficient to load<\/a>.<\/b><br \/>\n    If Google can load and render your pages faster, we might be able to read more content from your<br \/>\n    site.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n        <b>Improve loading speed:<\/b> Optimize your server response times and resources to make pages<br \/>\n        load faster.\n      <\/li>\n<li>\n        <b>Use HTTP caching:<\/b> Support<br \/>\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/troubleshoot-google-search-crawling-errors\/#if-modified-since\" class=\"external-link\"><code>304 (Not Modified)<\/code> HTTP status codes<\/a>.<br \/>\n        If a page hasn&#8217;t changed since Google last crawled it, returning a <code>304<\/code> code tells<br \/>\n        Google to reuse the cached version, saving your server bandwidth and resources.\n      <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n    <b><a href=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/troubleshoot-google-search-crawling-errors\/\" class=\"external-link\">Debug issues with crawl budget<\/a>.<\/b><br \/>\n    Check whether your site had any availability issues during crawling, and look for ways to make<br \/>\n    your crawling more efficient.\n  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"more-crawl-budget\" tabindex=\"-1\">How do I get more crawl budget?<\/h2>\n<p>There are two ways to increase crawl budget:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n    <b>Add more server resources<\/b>: If your site can&#8217;t be crawled because of server capacity on<br \/>\n    your end (for example, you&#8217;re getting<br \/>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/webmasters\/answer\/9012289#site-wide-error-inspection&#038;zippy=%2Csite-wide-availability-issues\" class=\"external-link\"><b>Hostload exceeded<\/b><\/a><br \/>\n    in the URL inspection tool), add more server resources if that makes sense for your business.\n  <\/li>\n<li>\n    <b>Optimize your content&#8217;s quality for the Google product you&#8217;re targeting<\/b>: Google<br \/>\n    determines the crawling resources allocated to each site by factoring in elements that are<br \/>\n    relevant to the specific Google product. For example, for Google Search, this includes things<br \/>\n    like popularity, overall user value, content uniqueness, and serving capacity.\n  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn what crawl budget is and how you can optimize Google&#8217;s crawling of large and frequently updated websites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"menu_order":7000,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ar_kb_kategori":[708],"ar_kb_etiket":[],"class_list":["post-25665","ar_kb","type-ar_kb","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ar_kb_kategori-crawling-infrastructure-crawling-and-indexing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_kb\/25665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ar_kb"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_kb\/25665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25676,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_kb\/25665\/revisions\/25676"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ar_kb_kategori","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_kb_kategori?post=25665"},{"taxonomy":"ar_kb_etiket","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_kb_etiket?post=25665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}