How to check if Google has indexed your site.

Search site:yourdomain.com for a rough answer in seconds, or open Search Console for the accurate one. The two disagree more often than people expect, and Search Console is the one to believe.

The quick version

Search site:yourdomain.com. The results are pages Google has indexed from that domain, and the count is approximate.

It is a useful smoke test and nothing more. The number moves around, it is not a ranking signal, and a page appearing there tells you it is indexed, not that anyone will find it.

The accurate version

Search Console's Pages report lists what is indexed and, more usefully, what is not and why. The reasons are specific: crawled but not indexed, discovered but not crawled, blocked by robots.txt, marked noindex, or a duplicate of another page.

Its URL Inspection tool checks a single address and tells you exactly what Google saw the last time it looked. That is the closest thing to a definitive answer available.

What the common verdicts mean

Two of these are misread constantly.

• Crawled — currently not indexed. Google looked and decided the page was not worth including. Usually thin or duplicated content, not a technical fault.
• Discovered — currently not crawled. Google knows the page exists but has not got to it. Common on large or new sites, and often resolves on its own.
• Duplicate without user-selected canonical. Google thinks another page is the same thing. Fix by choosing a canonical rather than by rewriting.
• Blocked by robots.txt or marked noindex. A deliberate instruction is being followed. Find where it came from.

If pages are genuinely missing

Submit a sitemap, make sure the pages are linked from somewhere on the site, and request indexing for the important ones in Search Console.

A page nothing links to is the most common cause we see. Google finds pages by following links, and a page reachable only from a sitemap is a page it has little reason to prioritise.

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The accurate version

Its URL Inspection tool checks a single address and tells you exactly what Google saw the last time it looked. That is the closest thing to a definitive answer available.

What the common verdicts mean

Two of these are misread constantly.

• Crawled — currently not indexed. Google looked and decided the page was not worth including. Usually thin or duplicated content, not a technical fault.

• Discovered — currently not crawled. Google knows the page exists but has not got to it. Common on large or new sites, and often resolves on its own.

• Duplicate without user-selected canonical. Google thinks another page is the same thing. Fix by choosing a canonical rather than by rewriting.

• Blocked by robots.txt or marked noindex. A deliberate instruction is being followed. Find where it came from.

If pages are genuinely missing

Submit a sitemap, make sure the pages are linked from somewhere on the site, and request indexing for the important ones in Search Console.

A page nothing links to is the most common cause we see. Google finds pages by following links, and a page reachable only from a sitemap is a page it has little reason to prioritise.