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Why am I not seeing a decrease of translated pages after deleting pages?

When managing your translated sites, you might notice that after deleting a clone or excluding specific URL patterns, your "Page Usage" count doesn't drop immediately. This article explains how our counting system works and how you can optimize your page limit.

How Page Usage is Calculated

A page is added to your usage count the moment it is "triggered." A trigger occurs when:

A human visitor lands on a translated page.
A search engine bot (like Googlebot) crawls the translated version of a page.

Once a page is triggered, our system performs the translation. Because this process incurs immediate computational and translation costs, that page is registered to your account.

The 90-Day Retention Rule

If you exclude a page or delete a clone, those pages will remain in your usage statistics for 90 days before they are permanently removed and the "slot" becomes available again.

Why 90 days?

Translation Costs: We incur the cost of translating the content the moment the page is accessed.
Stability: This period prevents "limit cycling," where pages are constantly added and removed, ensuring a stable environment for our translation engine.

We understand that 90 days can feel like a long time, especially when dealing with large bulks of pages (e.g., lists, categories or article archives). However, because the translation work has already been performed, the usage remains active for this period.

Proactive Management: Avoid Unwanted Page Counts

The best way to manage your limit is to prevent pages from being counted in the first place. Since a page is only counted after it is visited or crawled, you should set up your exclusions early.

1. Exclude Before the Crawl

If you are creating a new clone or site, add your page exclude rules immediately after setup. If you exclude these paths before a bot or visitor accesses them, they will never be translated and will never count toward your limit.

2. Robot.txt and Sitemaps

Ensure your translated sitemaps do not include pages you intend to exclude. This reduces the chance of bots triggering unwanted translations.

3. Bulk Cleanup

If you have already triggered a large volume of unwanted pages, adding an exclusion now will prevent future updates to those translations, but they will still occupy your quota for the next 90 days.

Summary Table

Action	Immediate Effect	Effect after 90 Days
Exclude a Page	Page is no longer accessible/translated.	Page is removed from usage count.
Delete a Clone	Site is taken offline.	All pages from that clone are removed from usage.
New Page Visit	Page is translated and added to usage.	N/A

Need help with your limits?

If you have accidentally triggered a massive amount of pages due to a configuration error and it is blocking your site's functionality, please reach out to our support team to discuss your options.

Updated on: 17/03/2026

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