# Crawl Budget

> The number of pages Googlebot will crawl on your site in a given time.

Source: https://anotherseoguru.com/en/glossary/crawl-budget

Crawl budget is the number of pages Google's crawler will visit on your website within a certain timeframe. For large sites, optimizing crawl budget ensures important pages get crawled frequently while low-value pages don't waste resources.

## Example

A site with 1 million pages but crawl budget for 10,000/day means it takes 100 days to crawl everything once.

## How to apply it

Block low-value pages in robots.txt, fix crawl errors, improve page speed, remove duplicate content, optimize internal linking to important pages.

> **Pro tip:** Crawl budget only matters for large sites (100K+ pages). Small sites will have everything crawled regardless of optimization.

## Related terms

- [Crawling](https://anotherseoguru.com/en/glossary/crawling)
- [Robots.txt](https://anotherseoguru.com/en/glossary/robots-txt)
- [Indexing](https://anotherseoguru.com/en/glossary/indexing)