Built by Rankite, the SEO team behind Swordfish AI's +400% revenue and Zluri's +45% organic growth. See the case studies
Crawl budget calculator turns two numbers from Google Search Console into a clear read on whether Googlebot can realistically reach every page on your site. Enter your total indexable page count and your average pages crawled per day, and the calculator works out your rough monthly crawl budget and how many days it would take Google to crawl your entire site once at its current pace.
Crawl budget is the number of pages Googlebot is willing and able to crawl on your site in a given period. It comes from two things combined: crawl capacity, meaning how many requests your server can handle without slowing down, and crawl demand, meaning how much Google actually wants to check your content based on how popular and how frequently updated it is. A site with thousands of thin, duplicate or rarely-updated pages can end up with Googlebot spending its limited attention on low-value URLs instead of the pages that matter.
Monthly crawl budget is simply your average pages crawled per day multiplied by 30, a shorthand used in crawl budget guides like Conductor's SEO Academy: if Google crawls 40 pages a day on average, that is roughly 1,200 pages a month. The pages-to-crawl-rate ratio divides your total indexable pages by that same daily average, which tells you, roughly, how many days it would take Google to crawl every page on your site once. Yoast's crawl budget guidance treats a ratio above about 10 as a sign that crawl budget optimization is probably worth doing, since your site has more than 10 times as many pages as Google is crawling in a day, and treats a ratio under about 3 as generally healthy.
Your average pages crawled per day comes from Google Search Console's Crawl Stats report, found under Settings. It shows total crawl requests over the reporting window; divide that total by the number of days in the window to get a daily average. Your total indexable page count is harder to get exactly, but a reasonable estimate comes from your XML sitemap's URL count, or from the Page Indexing report's count of pages Google considers eligible for indexing. Google's own documentation notes that crawl budget mainly matters for larger sites, generally those with roughly 10,000 or more URLs, or sites publishing new content faster than Google can keep up with; smaller sites with clean architecture are usually crawled fully without any special intervention.
Get a free, no-obligation SEO audit and a 30-minute strategy session. We'll show you exactly where the growth is hiding.
Fill out the form and we'll get back to you within one business day. Prefer email? Write to us directly at contact@rankite.com.