The crawl budget is the number of pages a search engine is willing to crawl on a website within a specific timeframe, influenced by factors like website size, server performance, crawl rate limits, duplicate content, and internal link structure. Larger and high-quality websites typically receive a larger crawl budget, while slow-loading sites may face reductions. Effective management of these factors can enhance a website's visibility and indexing by search engines.

1. Crawl Budget

2. • The amount of pages or URLs that a search engine bot, sometimes referred to as a
crawler or spider, is willing to crawl on a website over a given time frame, usually within
a day, is referred to as the crawl budget.
• Search engines allot a limited amount of this resource to every website, taking into
account a number of variables such as the website's relevancy, authority, and past crawl
patterns.

4. Factors Affecting Crawl Budget
• Website size: Compared to smaller websites, larger websites with more pages typically have a larger
crawl budget. The crawl budget allotment, however, could change based on how relevant and high-
quality the website is overall.
• Server performance: Websites with steady server performance and pages that load quickly are given
preference by search engines. Sites that load slowly or frequently have server issues may have their
crawl budget cut.

5. Size affects budget
Server performance affects budget

6. • Crawl Rate Limit: In order to avoid overloading their servers, search engines such as Google may
place a crawl rate limit on websites. Websites can regulate how often a Google-bot scans their site by
adjusting the crawl rate parameters in Google Search Console.
• Duplicate information pages: Since search engines will give priority to indexing original and valuable
information, a website with a large amount of duplicate content may waste its crawl budget.
• Internal Link Structure: Websites with a clear and organized internal link structure make it easier for
search engine bots to discover and crawl important pages efficiently.