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Crawl budget refers to the number of pages Googlebot will crawl on your site within a given timeframe. It is determined by crawl rate limit (how fast Google can crawl without overloading your server) and crawl demand (how much Google wants to crawl your content).
Crawl budget matters for large sites (10,000+ pages) where Google may not crawl every page regularly. Sites with significant crawl waste — low-value URLs like faceted navigation combinations, parameter spam, soft 404s, and thin pages — spend their budget on pages that add no ranking value.
Improving crawl efficiency means ensuring robots.txt, canonical tags, and your sitemap are aligned so Googlebot focuses on your highest-value pages. For most sites under 1,000 pages, crawl budget is rarely a practical constraint.
Example
An e-commerce site with 15,000 category filter combinations (color+size+material) can waste most of its crawl budget on non-indexable URLs. Disallowing these in robots.txt or using canonical tags concentrates crawling on core category pages.
Apply this in practice
Definitions are step one.
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