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Crawl budget is not the emergency you think it is
Before you obsess over crawl stats, check whether Google even wants to be there.
Crawl budget panic is almost always a symptom, not the disease. Teams pour hours into log file analysis before asking the more useful question: does this section deserve to be crawled at all?
Fix the reasons a crawler would want to leave — thin pages, duplicate templates, dead ends — and the budget problem tends to solve itself.