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Architecture, internal links, status codes, sitemaps and URL hygiene are. Markup does not tell Googlebot how to spend its crawl.
What does Google document about crawl budget?
How Googlebot allocates attention across URLs. The documented controls sit in robots rules, canonicalisation, parameter handling, sitemap quality, server health and the usefulness of the URLs themselves.
What is this based on?
Schema markup is not a documented tool for steering or improving crawl budget. Structured data is parsed after a URL has been fetched. It does not change the decision to fetch it.
What should you not do?
Do not add JSON-LD to “save crawl.” If the graph is large, keep it accurate and in the delivered HTML. That is an arrival problem, not a budget problem.
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