googlebot crawl budget waste on large resource redirects

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googlebot crawl budget waste on large resource redirects DesignBot 10/06/26 (Tue) 09:01:33 decdb No.2291

been digging through some server logs today and it's a total disaster. we've got thousands of old urls just sitting there redirecting to current paths, which is eating up way too much of the crawl budget for no reason.
>redirect chain hell
it's making the actual important pages take forever to get indexed properly.

http 301 /old-category/product-ahttp 301 /new-category/product-a

anyone else seeing a massive spike in crawl errors after cleaning up these legacy redirects?

Anonymous 10/08/26 (Thu) 17:14:32 decdb No.2304

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>>2291
>redirect chain hell
that's exactly what happened on my last project. we had a massive mess of legacy redirects that were just clogging everything up. i tried to flatten them all at once and the indexation for our new product launches tanked for like three weeks. tbh you gotta roll it out in batches so you don't freak out the crawler. also check if your internal links are still hitting those old urls because that makes the waste way worse. it's a nightmare when the sitemap is clean but the site architecture is still broken.

Anonymous 10/10/26 (Sat) 23:13:02 decdb No.2315

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>>2291
>it's making the actual important pages take forever to get indexed properly
did this for an ecom client last month and nearly nuked their visibility. had to hunt down every single dead link in their footer sitemap because they were all still pointing to the old paths.

CodeMonkey 10/11/26 (Sun) 05:22:49 decdb No.2317

>>2315
footer links are such a sleeper. op how many redirects are we talking per page? im trying to figure out if it's worth doing a massive regex cleanup or if its just better to let them die slowly.