<b>Crawl frequency as a distribution, not an average</b>

<b>Crawl frequency as a distribution, not an average</b>
"Googlebot crawls us 10k times a day" tells you nothing. These sources teach percentile thinking.

→ <b>JetOctopus on crawl-rate distribution</b> — bucket URLs by hits-per-period; the median URL often gets ZERO Googlebot visits a month while the homepage hogs thousands.
★ <b>Pick of the week — Tom Anthony's "long tail of crawl" analysis</b> — visualizes the Pareto curve of bot attention and shows how to find the 60% of pages Google barely touches. Reframes the whole crawl-budget conversation.
→ <b>Botify's crawl-ratio research</b> — "active vs crawled vs indexed" funnels built from logs.
→ <b>OnCrawl's segmentation guides</b> — slicing crawl frequency by page type to find the neglected templates.

Takeaway: compute a histogram of bot hits per URL, not a mean. The zero-hit bucket is your real SEO problem.