{"id":12486,"date":"2026-07-26T13:13:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T05:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/?p=12486"},"modified":"2026-07-26T13:13:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T05:13:22","slug":"google-updates-its-crawl-budget-doc-every-site-starts-on-conservative-crawl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/?p=12486","title":{"rendered":"Google Updates Its Crawl Budget Doc: Every Site Starts On Conservative Crawl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p> <div> <p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.seroundtable.com\/lizzi-google-crawley-1726479799.jpg\" style=\"max-width:100%\" alt=\"Lizzi Google Crawley\" title=\"Google Updates Its Crawl Budget Doc: Every Site Starts On Conservative Crawl\u63d2\u56fe\" \/><\/p> <p>Google has updated its Optimize your crawl budget page, it said to &#8220;improve clarity, terminology consistency, and flow.&#8221; One thing that is new in the document is that Google said that &#8220;Every site starts with the same default, conservative crawl capacity limit.&#8221;<\/p> <p>There are tons of changes to the document, most are not fundamental changes to how Google crawls but just clarifications and improved writing in the document itself. <\/p> <p>Google wrote the changes were to &#8220;make the documentation easier to understand and ensure technical terms (like crawl capacity limit) are used consistently throughout.&#8221;<\/p> <p>Here are some new lines added:<\/p> <ul> <li>&#8220;Every site starts with the same default, conservative crawl capacity limit. If there is demand to crawl more and the site remains healthy, Google&#8217;s systems will automatically adjust this limit over time.&#8221;<\/li> <li>&#8220;For Googlebot, demand varies based on a site&#8217;s size, update frequency, page quality, and relevance, compared to other sites. The primary factors you can influence are.&#8221;<\/li> <li>&#8220;While each crawler has a different crawl demand, the crawl capacity limit is shared across all crawlers. This means that high demand from one crawler can reduce the capacity available for others.&#8221;<\/li> <li>&#8220;Improve loading speed: Optimize your server response times and resources to make pages load faster.&#8221;<\/li> <li>&#8220;Use HTTP caching: Support 304 (Not Modified) HTTP status codes. If a page hasn&#8217;t changed since Google last crawled it, returning a 304 code tells Google to reuse the cached version, saving your server bandwidth and resources.&#8221;<\/li> <\/ul> <p>There are many many changes, here is a before and after comparison:<\/p> <p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.seroundtable.com\/text-compare-crawl-budget-google-doc-WWDVtNYg.png\" style=\"max-width:100%\" alt=\"Text Compare Crawl Budget Google Doc\" title=\"Google Updates Its Crawl Budget Doc: Every Site Starts On Conservative Crawl\u63d2\u56fe1\" \/><\/p> <p>Forum discussion at X.<\/p> <p><small><i>Image credit Lizzi Sassman<\/i><\/small><\/p> <\/p><\/div> <p>#Google #Updates #Crawl #Budget #Doc #Site #Starts #Conservative #Crawl1785042802<\/p> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has updated its Optimize your crawl budget page, it said to &#8220;improve clarity, terminology consistency, and flow.&#8221; One thing that is new in the document is that Google said that &#8220;Every site starts with the same default, conservative crawl capacity limit.&#8221; There are tons of changes to the document, most are not fundamental changes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[489,48701,8581,6323,75,420,814,172],"class_list":["post-12486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-careers","tag-budget","tag-conservative","tag-crawl","tag-doc","tag-google","tag-site","tag-starts","tag-updates"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}