diff --git a/src/main/java/org/dstadler/commoncrawl/Utils.java b/src/main/java/org/dstadler/commoncrawl/Utils.java
index 12efad50..b1ad4473 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/dstadler/commoncrawl/Utils.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/dstadler/commoncrawl/Utils.java
@@ -31,6 +31,10 @@
 public class Utils {
     private final static Logger log = LoggerFactory.make();
 
+	// downloading from common-crawl S3 buckets is now heavily throttled, let's add some
+	// delay for each file to not hit the rate-limits very quickly
+	private static final int THROTTLE_DELAY_MS = 10_000;
+
     // avoid having to read the header data always during testing, can be removed later...
     public static final int INDEX_BLOCK_COUNT = 2644;
     public static final int BLOCK_SIZE = 65536;
@@ -214,4 +218,14 @@ public static void ensureDownloadDir() {
             }
         }
 	}
+
+	public static void throttleDownloads() {
+		// downloading from common-crawl S3 buckets is now heavily throttled, let's add some
+		// delay for each file to not hit the rate-limits very quickly
+		try {
+			Thread.sleep(THROTTLE_DELAY_MS);
+		} catch (InterruptedException e) {
+			throw new RuntimeException(e);
+		}
+	}
 }
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/dstadler/commoncrawl/index/DownloadFromCommonCrawl.java b/src/main/java/org/dstadler/commoncrawl/index/DownloadFromCommonCrawl.java
index c2c0f6cf..d70b7633 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/dstadler/commoncrawl/index/DownloadFromCommonCrawl.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/dstadler/commoncrawl/index/DownloadFromCommonCrawl.java
@@ -50,13 +50,7 @@ public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
 					if (file != null) {
 						downloaded++;
 
-						// downloading from common-crawl S3 buckets is now heavily throttled, let's add some
-						// delay for each file to not hit the rate-limits very quickly
-						try {
-							Thread.sleep(10_000);
-						} catch (InterruptedException e) {
-							throw new RuntimeException(e);
-						}
+						Utils.throttleDownloads();
 					}
 				} catch (IOException e) {
 					// skip files that we cannot store locally,
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/dstadler/commoncrawl/index/DownloadURLIndex.java b/src/main/java/org/dstadler/commoncrawl/index/DownloadURLIndex.java
index 9cae99fc..7797f344 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/dstadler/commoncrawl/index/DownloadURLIndex.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/dstadler/commoncrawl/index/DownloadURLIndex.java
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 import org.archive.util.zip.GZIPMembersInputStream;
 import org.dstadler.commoncrawl.Extensions;
 import org.dstadler.commoncrawl.MimeTypes;
+import org.dstadler.commoncrawl.Utils;
 import org.dstadler.commons.collections.MappedCounter;
 import org.dstadler.commons.collections.MappedCounterImpl;
 import org.dstadler.commons.http.HttpClientWrapper;
@@ -143,13 +144,7 @@ protected static void handleInputStream(String url, InputStream stream, int inde
 							StringUtils.abbreviate(FOUND_MIME_TYPES.sortedMap().toString(), 95));
 					lastLog = System.currentTimeMillis();
 
-					// downloading from common-crawl S3 buckets is now heavily throttled, let's add some
-					// delay for each file to not hit the rate-limits very quickly
-					try {
-						Thread.sleep(10_000);
-					} catch (InterruptedException e) {
-						throw new RuntimeException(e);
-					}
+					Utils.throttleDownloads();
 				}
 			}
 		}
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/dstadler/commoncrawl/oldindex/ProcessAndDownload.java b/src/main/java/org/dstadler/commoncrawl/oldindex/ProcessAndDownload.java
index 499f569c..3a55b912 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/dstadler/commoncrawl/oldindex/ProcessAndDownload.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/dstadler/commoncrawl/oldindex/ProcessAndDownload.java
@@ -31,13 +31,7 @@ protected void handle(String url, byte[] block, int headerStart, long blockIndex
 
         Utils.downloadFileFromCommonCrawl(client.getHttpClient(), url, header, false);
 
-		// downloading from common-crawl S3 buckets is now heavily throttled, let's add some
-		// delay for each file to not hit the rate-limits very quickly
-		try {
-			Thread.sleep(10_000);
-		} catch (InterruptedException e) {
-			throw new RuntimeException(e);
-		}
+		Utils.throttleDownloads();
 	}
 
     @Override