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After each site crawl, the overview page provides β€œSuggestions” to help optimize your crawler configuration. To access these suggestions, click View in Suggestions on the Crawler’s overview page or Suggestions in the sidebar menu. Example list of crawler configuration improvement suggestions Click Snooze to hide a suggestion for 30 days. Click Dismiss to permanently hide a suggestion. For information about potential errors, see Error messages.

Potential suggestions

SuggestionSolution
Automatic crawls schedule is not setTo ensure your data is always up-to-date, schedule automatic crawls
Robots.txt file is missing or Algolia Crawler is disallowedThe crawler encountered issues with your site’s robots.txt file. Either the file is missing, or it doesn’t allow the Algolia Crawler
Sitemap not foundEnsure efficient crawling by adding sitemaps to the crawler configuration
Some HTML pages or documents are too bigRecords exceed the maximum for your Algolia plan
URLs ignored or failedReview the crawl status
Website HTML contains <meta name="robots" content="NOINDEX,NOFOLLOW"> tagRemove these meta tags from the pages or ignore them in the crawler configuration
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