diff --git a/Gemfile.lock b/Gemfile.lock
index bb0fd32ad2..e5c6a5d092 100644
--- a/Gemfile.lock
+++ b/Gemfile.lock
@@ -48,9 +48,10 @@ GIT
 
 GIT
   remote: https://github.com/MothOnMars/robotex
-  revision: e51e6085d21ba532aaa3d54e979c92090c842af4
+  revision: 7e91000a3592e96ead47591e6c5c15233c19ab43
   specs:
     robotex (1.0.0)
+      open_uri_redirections (~> 0.2.1)
 
 GIT
   remote: https://github.com/MothOnMars/sitemaps
@@ -433,6 +434,7 @@ GEM
     nokogumbo (1.5.0)
       nokogiri
     oj (3.3.10)
+    open_uri_redirections (0.2.1)
     os (0.9.6)
     paperclip (5.2.1)
       activemodel (>= 4.2.0)
diff --git a/app/models/searchgov_domain.rb b/app/models/searchgov_domain.rb
index 33422cc5f0..71bf59eb2e 100644
--- a/app/models/searchgov_domain.rb
+++ b/app/models/searchgov_domain.rb
@@ -4,6 +4,13 @@ class SearchgovDomain < ActiveRecord::Base
 
   attr_readonly :domain
 
+  def delay
+    @delay ||= begin
+      robotex = Robotex.new 'usasearch'
+      robotex.delay("http://#{domain}/") || 1
+    end
+  end
+
   private
 
   def valid_domain?
diff --git a/spec/models/searchgov_domain_spec.rb b/spec/models/searchgov_domain_spec.rb
index d1af0f0a16..0c6688d0bc 100644
--- a/spec/models/searchgov_domain_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/models/searchgov_domain_spec.rb
@@ -65,4 +65,47 @@
       end
     end
   end
+
+  describe '#delay' do
+    subject(:delay) { searchgov_domain.delay }
+
+    before do
+      stub_request(:get, "http://#{domain}/robots.txt").
+        to_return(status: [200, "OK"], headers: { content_type: 'text/plain' }, body: robots)
+    end
+
+    context 'when a delay is specified in robots.txt' do
+      let(:robots) { "User-agent: *\nCrawl-delay: 10" }
+
+      it { is_expected.to eq 10 }
+
+      context 'when the domain is redirected' do
+        before do
+          stub_request(:get, "http://#{domain}/robots.txt").
+            to_return(status: 301, headers: { location: "https://#{domain}/robots.txt" }, body: "")
+          stub_request(:get, "https://#{domain}/robots.txt").
+            to_return(status: [200, "OK"], headers: { content_type: 'text/plain' }, body: robots)
+        end
+
+        it { is_expected.to eq 10 }
+      end
+    end
+
+    context 'when no delay is specified' do
+      let(:robots) { "User-agent: *\nDisallow: /somedir/" }
+
+      it 'defaults to 1' do
+        expect(delay).to eq 1
+      end
+    end
+
+    context 'when a delay is specified for the "usasearch" user agent' do
+      let(:robots) { "User-agent: *\nCrawl-delay: 10\nUser-agent: usasearch\nCrawl-delay: 2" }
+
+      # This needs to be fixed in the robotex gem:
+      # https://github.com/chriskite/robotex/issues/9
+      # https://www.pivotaltracker.com/story/show/157329443
+      xit { is_expected.to eq 2 }
+    end
+  end
 end