Crawl budget is the finite amount of attention a search engine allocates to crawling your site in a given period, and when that attention gets consumed by low-value URLs — endless filter combinations, redirect chains, duplicate parameter variations — your genuinely important, updated content can wait longer to be discovered and re-crawled than it should.
Crawl budget waste diagnosis
A report on exactly where crawl budget is being wasted, and on what.
- Full backup taken before we start
- If we can’t fix it, you get your money back
- We never ask for your own password
What we need from you
- Access to your Search Console property’s crawl stats
- Server log access, if available, for a more complete picture of actual crawler behaviour
- Confirmation of any recent changes (a migration, a redesign) that might be relevant context
This or something else?
| You want to know whether and where crawl budget is being wasted on your site | This fix covers it |
| You already know faceted navigation specifically is the cause | Faceted navigation crawl control, the direct fix rather than a diagnosis |
| You want a broader indexation audit, not specifically a crawl budget diagnosis | Indexation audit & remediation report |
| Your XML sitemap has an error, a related but distinct issue | XML sitemap error correction & regeneration |
What we do
- Review Search Console crawl stats for patterns and anomalies
- Analyse server logs where available for actual crawler behaviour
- Identify specific categories of URLs consuming disproportionate crawl attention
- Distinguish genuine waste from normal, expected crawl activity
- Compile findings into a clear, prioritised written report
- Recommend specific remediation steps, ranked by impact
What is included
- A thorough crawl budget analysis using Search Console and, where available, server logs
- Specific, identified sources of crawl waste
- A written, prioritised report
- Recommendations for remediation, with a quote if you want the fixes applied
Not included
- Implementing the recommended fixes — quoted separately based on findings
- Guaranteeing a specific crawl budget increase or indexing speed improvement
- Server log access setup, if your hosting doesn’t currently provide it
- Ongoing monitoring after the report is delivered
Questions about this fix
Is crawl budget something every site needs to worry about?
Not equally — very large sites with many thousands of pages are more likely to genuinely benefit from crawl budget optimisation than a small site, where Google typically has more than enough attention to cover everything reasonably promptly.
How would I know if this is actually affecting my site's visibility?
Symptoms can include new or updated content taking unusually long to appear in search results, or Search Console's crawl stats showing a high proportion of requests going to low-value URL patterns — this report investigates both.
Do I need server log access for this to be useful?
It's not strictly required, but it does provide a more complete, accurate picture than Search Console data alone, which only shows a sample rather than the full crawl history.
Will fixing crawl waste guarantee faster indexing of new content?
It removes a genuine, common barrier to efficient crawling, which supports faster indexing, though the practical improvement depends on how significant the waste was in the first place.
Is this the same as a general SEO audit?
No, this is specifically focused on crawl efficiency — a narrower, more technical question than a broad SEO audit, which is why it can be a faster, more targeted starting point if crawl waste is your specific concern.
Related fixes
If this is the second time this year
A bad update breaking the site is a symptom of updates not being tested first. Care plans run every update on a staging clone before it reaches your live site, which is the actual fix for this happening again.
Your access, your rules
Create a separate admin account for us and delete it when we are done. For anything else, we get in touch and agree a method — never a form field on this site, never by reply to an email.
We back up first, always
Before anything is touched we take a full backup and keep it for 30 days. If a fix goes wrong, we put the site back exactly as it was.
If it is not what you bought
If the problem turns out smaller than what you ordered, we refund the difference. If it is bigger, we stop and send a quote before doing any extra work.
If we cannot fix it
You get back what we received. Diagnosis is on us — you only pay when the problem is actually solved. The payment processor takes its fee before the money reaches us, so we never hold it and it is not ours to return. That is true here as everywhere else.
If it comes back
Reply within seven days of delivery and we put it back on the bench at no cost. The fix is not finished until it holds.
What we are responsible for
If something goes wrong with a fix, our responsibility is limited to what you paid for it. We take a full backup first so mistakes can be undone, and we tell you before doing anything outside what you bought.