Crawl budget
Definition
Crawl budget is the number of pages a search engine will crawl on a site within a given period, determined by the site's authority, server responsiveness and the perceived value of its URLs.
It only becomes a practical constraint on large sites — typically tens of thousands of URLs. Below that, crawl budget problems are usually index bloat problems in disguise: faceted navigation, session parameters and thin generated pages consuming crawls that should go to commercial pages.
The fix is rarely to request more crawling. It is to reduce the number of low-value URLs through robots directives, canonicalisation, parameter handling and noindex, so the crawler spends its allocation on pages that matter.
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