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Persistent server errors can cause Google to slow crawling.
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- Crawl Budget Management | Google Crawling Infrastructure
Google for Developers · primary source · retrieved 2026-08-19
“responds with server errors (5xx HTTP status codes) ... the limit goes down and Google crawls less” — Crawl capacity limit > Crawl health
- Reduce Google Crawl Rate | Google Crawling Infrastructure
Google for Developers · primary source · retrieved 2026-08-19
“reduces your site's crawling rate when it encounters a significant number of URLs with 500, 503, or 429” — Automatic crawl rate reduction section
- How HTTP status codes affect Google's crawlers
Google Crawling Infrastructure · primary source · retrieved 2026-08-19
“5xx and 429 server errors prompt Google's crawlers to temporarily slow down with crawling.” — lines 91-93
- Reduce the Google crawl rate
Google Crawling Infrastructure · primary source · retrieved 2026-08-19
“Google's crawling infrastructure reduces your site's crawling rate when it encounters a significant number of URLs” — lines 61-66
- Google: Persistent 5xx Result In Slower Crawling But Won't Say How Many URLs Required
Search Engine Roundtable · retrieved 2026-08-19
“Persistent 5xx's would cause us to crawl slower than usual” — Mueller quote
Release: seo-geo-product-v0.3 · Phase Two freeze: P2-CORE300-FINAL-v1.0 · Generated: 2026-08-23T08:01:40Z