The phrase "a crawl on" is not standard in written English and may be confusing without context.
It could potentially be used in a specific context related to web crawling or slow movement, but clarity is essential.
Example: "The website experienced a crawl on its loading speed, frustrating many users."
Alternatives: "a slowdown in" or "a lag in".
Summer traffic through the Hamptons is already at a crawl on most weekends, but that isn't stopping the Village of East Hampton from lowering the speed limit.
As Kathryn S. Wylde, president of the Partnership for New York City, put it, "We have witnessed the Wall Street swagger turn into a crawl on bended knees".
Serry Winkler, a sales representative in Denver, said that she had turned off the network-security software provided by her Internet service provider because it slowed performance to a crawl on her PC, which was running Windows 98.
The Missouri legislature slowed to a crawl on Thursday, jeopardizing scores of bills with just two days left in its session, because of lingering animosity over the Republican passage of legislation limiting union powers.
With commutes that took hours, half-mile lines at suburban gas stations and city buses stuffed beyond capacity, the transportation systems in most of the region slowed to a crawl on Wednesday, amid promises that some subway and commuter rail services would be restored by the Thursday morning commute.
HUNTINGTON, Utah, Aug. 7 — Efforts to reach six trapped coal miners came to a crawl on Tuesday as continued seismic activity forced out rescue teams, and drilling equipment began slowly chewing through thousands of feet of rock to where the men were working early Monday when parts of the mountain shook and fell.
Starting at 3 as a crawl-on in a Western serial called "Daredevil Jack," he had been an extra, played bit parts or had significant roles in more than two dozen silent movies.
The professional gossip Perez Hilton has a crawl-on part in the video for Rihanna's "S&M", which caused complaints over its explicit depiction of leftfield sexual practices and earned censure from the broadcasting watchdog, Ofcom, when it was shown before the watershed.
I slowed to a crawl and put on my emergency lights, hoping whatever it was would jump out.
The app slowed browsing to a crawl, even on Wi-Fi, and it froze twice before I gave up on it.
Selecting a method for performing a crawl depends on the desirable goal.
