The number of pages a search engine’s crawler is willing and able to fetch from a site within a given time period. Crawl budget matters most on large sites — a small blog rarely runs out, but a site with tens of thousands of URLs can have important pages missed if budget is wasted on redirects, duplicate parameters, or low-value pages. Optimizing crawl budget means pruning what shouldn’t be crawled so what matters gets found and indexed faster. See crawl budget optimization and the crawlability guide.
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