Best crawl budget plugins for WordPress
The most popular crawl budget plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Link Juice Optimizer leads with 5K+ active installs, ahead of Azayem Bots Tracker (20+) and Category Indexer for WooCommerce (10+). All 5 plugins tagged “crawl budget” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 5 crawl budget plugins
- 1.
Link Juice OptimizerThe most installed crawl budget plugin, with 5K+ active installs. Only 4 reviews so far, last updated 2 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.4.14.
- 2.
Azayem Bots Tracker20+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 10 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 3.
Category Indexer for WooCommerce10+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 6 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 4.
IndexSweepFewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, updated 2 months ago.
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Globe Boss CrawlBoostFewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, updated 3 weeks ago.
All 5 plugins tagged “crawl budget”
Link Juice Optimizer
Down in the last 7 days:2#2,989by Fede Gómez2 years ago
Replace links with a clickable <span> tag, add the nofollow attribute or remove the href attribute to optimize link juice.
- Installs
- 5K+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 22/day
Azayem Bots Tracker
Down in the last 7 days:12#26,713by botstracker10 months ago
A custom plugin to log search engine bot visits and analyze their crawl budget directly inside WordPress (no external services required).
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Category Indexer for WooCommerce
#31,651by Tihi6 months ago
Control meta robots, canonicals, link juice & crawling budget on WooCommerce shop/category pages. Auto 404 redirect handling for better SEO.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
IndexSweep
#55,878by cuyava2 months ago
Find the junk URLs wasting your crawl budget, fix them in one click, roll back anything. The fixer for "Crawled - currently not indexed".
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Globe Boss CrawlBoost
Down in the last 7 days:4,658#69,594by T Gabriel21 days ago
A read-only crawl diagnostics console for Google & Bing: HTTP health, 304 validators, soft-404 detection, URL waste, and IndexNow.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day