Why would you want to slow down your crawl when setting up a site audit?

Slowing down the crawl rate during a site audit is crucial to prevent your server from being overloaded. If the crawler requests pages too quickly, it can consume excessive server resources, leading to performance issues or even causing the server to block the crawler's IP address. This blocking would halt the audit and require intervention from developers to unblock the crawler and potentially optimize server performance, causing unnecessary work and delays. While a slower crawl doesn't inherently retrieve more information, it ensures the audit completes successfully without disrupting your website's operations or burdening your development team. It does not save money on SEMrush credits, as credit usage is typically based on the number of pages crawled, not the speed.