07/23/2026
Google has significantly updated its Crawl Budget documentation, revealing several details it had never clearly stated before.
Among the biggest changes:
🔹 Every website starts with the same conservative crawl capacity
🔹 Crawl capacity is shared across Google’s different crawlers
🔹 Site size, update frequency, page quality, and relevance affect crawl demand
🔹 Stable server response times and Time to First Byte matter
🔹 Google now specifically recommends supporting HTTP 304 caching
🔹 Large images and unnecessary pages can consume valuable crawl resources
For most small business websites, crawl budget is not the main SEO problem. However, these updates reinforce the importance of fast hosting, quality content, compressed images, clean site architecture, and proper caching.
See what changed and what website owners should actually do:
https://www.aldomedia.com/blog/google-crawl-budget-documentation-update
Every site starts with the same conservative crawl capacity limit, crawl capacity is shared across all of Google's crawlers, and Google now recommends supporting HTTP 304 responses. A full breakdown.