How do you change the frequency of a crawl?

Open the Crawl Rate Settings page for your property.

1. If your crawl rate is described as “calculated as optimal,” the only way to reduce the crawl rate is by filing a special request. You cannot increase the crawl rate.
2. Otherwise, select the option you want and then limit the crawl rate as desired.

How do you control crawl budget?

Many best practices for optimizing crawl budget are also equally applicable today:

1. Don’t block important pages.
2. Stick to HTML whenever possible.
3. Fix long redirect chains.
4. Tell Googlebot about URL parameters.
5. Correct HTTP errors.
6. Keep your sitemap up to date.
7. Use rel=”canonical” to avoid duplicate content.

When Should a website owner optimize their site for crawl budget?

If you end up with a number higher than ~10 (so you have 10x more pages than what Google crawls each day), you should probably optimize your crawl budget. If you end up with a number lower than 3, you can definitely go read something else.

How do I change the crawl rate of my website?

Change your crawl rate using the Crawl Rate Settings page, if the option is available. Two or three days later, when Google’s crawl rate has adapted, you can remove your robots.txt blocks or stop returning error codes from step 1.

How do I limit how fast Google crawls my site?

Our goal is to crawl as many pages from your site as we can on each visit without overwhelming your server’s bandwidth. If Google is making too many requests per second to your site and slowing down your server, you can limit how fast Google crawls your site.

How to fix Google crawl overcrawling your website?

Determine which Google crawler is overcrawling your site. Look at your website logs or use the Crawl Stats report. If you want a simple solution, use robots.txt to block crawling for the overloading agent (googlebot, adsbot, etc.). However, this can take up to a day to take effect.

What is crawl rate?

The term crawl rate means how many requests per second Googlebot makes to your site when it is crawling it: for example, 5 requests per second.