Glossary · SEO
What is
Crawl Budget?
The number of URLs a search engine will crawl on a site within a given timeframe.
By Anish· Founder · Vedwix
·Definition
Crawl budget is finite. For very large sites (>10k pages), Google won't crawl every URL every week. Optimizing crawl budget — by removing thin pages, fixing redirect chains, prioritizing important sections in sitemaps, and using internal links carefully — directly impacts how fast new content gets indexed.
Example
A 50k-page e-commerce site discovers 30% of its pages haven't been crawled in 90 days; a sitemap and internal-linking cleanup recovers 40% within a month.
How Vedwix uses Crawl Budget in client work
Sites over 5k pages get an explicit crawl-budget audit as part of SEO.
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