# Usage Limits

This version of the Google Search Console API enforces the following usage limits:

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## Search Analytics

Search Analytics quota falls in two types: load limits and QPS limits. The "[quota exceeded](https://developers.google.com/webmaster-tools/v1/errors#error_quotaExceeded)" error is the same for all quota exceeded events.

### Load quota

*Load* represents the internal resources consumed by a query. Most users will not exceed load limits, but if you do, you will receive a "[quota exceeded](https://developers.google.com/webmaster-tools/v1/errors#error_quotaExceeded)" error message. The [Search Analytics](https://developers.google.com/webmaster-tools/v1/searchanalytics) resource enforces the following load limits:

- **Short-term load quota:** Short-term quota is measured in 10 minute chunks. **To fix:**
  - If you exceed your quota, wait 15 minutes and try again. If you still exceed quota, you are exceeding long-term quota.
  - If you are exceeding short-term quota only, spread out your queries throughout the day.
- **Long-term load quota:** Long-term quota is measured in 1 day chunks. If you exceed quota when running only a single query inside a 10 minute period, you are exceeding your long-term quota. **To fix:**
  - Queries are expensive when you group and/or filter by either page or query string. Queries grouped/filtered by page AND query string are the most expensive. To reduce your load for these queries, remove the grouping and/or filtering for the page and/or query string.
  - Query load increases with the date range queried. So queries with a six month range are much more expensive than a query with a one day range.
  - Avoid requerying the same data (for example, querying all data for last month over and over).

### QPS quota

The [Search Analytics](https://developers.google.com/webmaster-tools/v1/searchanalytics) resource enforces the following QPS (queries per second) QPM (queries per minute) and QPD (queries per day) limits:

- **Per-site quota** (calls querying the same site):
  - 1,200 QPM
- **Per-user quota** (calls made by the same user):
  - 1,200 QPM
- **Per-project quota** (calls made using the same Developer Console key):
  - 30,000,000 QPD
  - 40,000 QPM

*Example*

- User A can make up to 1,200 QPM combined to her 3 websites.
- Users A and B can make up to 1,200 QPM combined to their one website.

## URL inspection

- **index inspection quota**
- **Per-site quota** (calls querying the same site):
  - 2000 QPD
  - 600 QPM
- **Per-project quota** (calls made using the same Developer Console key):
  - 10,000,000 QPD
  - 15,000 QPM

## All other resources

- **Per-user limit** (calls made by the same user):
  - 20 QPS
  - 200 QPM
- **Per-project limit** (calls made using the same Developer Console key):
  - 100,000,000 QPD

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You can see your current usage in the quota tab for your project in the [Google APIs Console](https://console.developers.google.com/project).