Manual Search Console refresh & site recrawl cooldowns
On the dashboard websites table, the ⋯ (more) menu per site offers two different actions: pull fresh Search Console metrics into SEO Perception, and queue a fresh crawl starting from your homepage. They use separate cooldown rules—mixing them up is the usual source of “why is this button disabled?”
Collect data (Search Console)
Collect data queues an import of Search Analytics performance into your workspace (weekly-aligned facts). For normal accounts it is limited to about once every 7 days per website, all tiers. If you try sooner, the control stays disabled or you see a rate-limit message with a suggested next time.
While a collection is queued or running, the row may show a syncing state instead of letting you stack duplicate requests.
Crawl site (technical crawl)
Crawl site asks the crawler to process your site again (seeded from the homepage). Cooldown depends on plan:
- Free — about once every 7 days per site.
- Paid (Noob and above) — about once every 24 hours per site.
If a crawl is already in progress, you cannot start another until it finishes. Very close duplicate clicks may be deduplicated so you do not enqueue noise.
How this differs from automatic work
SEO Perception also runs scheduled jobs in the background (imports and crawling over time). Manual buttons are for when you want an extra push—not a replacement for those schedules.