# What is Crawl budget?

Crawl budget is how many URLs a search engine will fetch from your site in a period. Huge sets of thin pages waste it.

Sitemaps advertise only gated URLs. Empty intersections are not listed.

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| term | Crawl budget |
| canonical | https://www.scrolllaunch.com/glossary/crawl-budget |
| kind | defined term |

## On ScrollLaunch

- [Sitemap index](https://www.scrolllaunch.com/sitemap.xml)