diff --git a/01_scrapy/wikipedia_country_scraper/wikipedia_country_scraper/settings.py b/01_scrapy/wikipedia_country_scraper/wikipedia_country_scraper/settings.py
index f3023c0..6193f0f 100644
--- a/01_scrapy/wikipedia_country_scraper/wikipedia_country_scraper/settings.py
+++ b/01_scrapy/wikipedia_country_scraper/wikipedia_country_scraper/settings.py
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ ROBOTSTXT_OBEY = True
 # Configure a delay for requests for the same website (default: 0)
 # See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/settings.html#download-delay
 # See also autothrottle settings and docs
-DOWNLOAD_DELAY = 1
+DOWNLOAD_DELAY = 0.25
 # The download delay setting will honor only one of:
 # CONCURRENT_REQUESTS_PER_DOMAIN = 16
 CONCURRENT_REQUESTS_PER_IP = 16