Crawl budget is a common source of concern and confusion in SEO.
This guide will explain everything you need to know about crawl budget and how it may impact your technical SEO efforts in 2025.
Why would search bots limit crawling?
Google’s Gary Illyes provided an excellent explanation about crawl budget, describing how Googlebot strives to be a “good citizen of the web.” This principle is key to understanding the concept and why it exists.
Think of when you last saw tickets to your favorite band go on sale.
Too many users flood the website, overwhelming the server and causing it not to respond as intended. This is frustrating and often prevents users from buying tickets.
This can also happen with bots. Remember when you forgot to adjust the crawling speed or number of simultaneous connections allowed on your favorite site crawler and brought down the website you were crawling on?
Googlebot could also do this. It could hit a website too frequently or through too many “parallel…
