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Crawl budgetWhat it means for you.

The number of pages a search engine will fetch from your site in a given period.

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What it means

Crawl budget is the limit on how much attention a bot gives your site. For small sites it rarely matters.

For large sites with many near-duplicate or endless URLs, wasted crawling can delay discovery of the pages that count.

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What is Crawl budget?

The number of pages a search engine will fetch from your site in a given period.

Where does it sit in Growth Score?

It belongs to the Acquisition pillar, one of the 12 pillars your score is built from.

What should I read next?

Start with Crawlability and XML sitemap, then browse the other terms in Acquisition.

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