diff --git a/docs/topics/settings.rst b/docs/topics/settings.rst
index d7a7d7fcf..4058eec3e 100644
--- a/docs/topics/settings.rst
+++ b/docs/topics/settings.rst
@@ -803,7 +803,7 @@ The scheduler to use for crawling.
 SCHEDULER_ORDER
 ---------------
 
-Default: ``'BFO'``
+Default: ``'DFO'``
 
 Scope: ``scrapy.core.scheduler``
 
diff --git a/scrapy/conf/default_settings.py b/scrapy/conf/default_settings.py
index 76feb0c6f..3ee377a44 100644
--- a/scrapy/conf/default_settings.py
+++ b/scrapy/conf/default_settings.py
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ SCHEDULER_MIDDLEWARES_BASE = {
     'scrapy.contrib.schedulermiddleware.duplicatesfilter.DuplicatesFilterMiddleware': 500,
 }
 
-SCHEDULER_ORDER = 'BFO'   # available orders: BFO (default), DFO
+SCHEDULER_ORDER = 'DFO'
 
 SPIDER_MANAGER_CLASS = 'scrapy.contrib.spidermanager.TwistedPluginSpiderManager'