Definition

The Page Indexing report is a Google Search Console report that shows how many of a site's URLs have been crawled and indexed by Google, and lists the reasons pages have not been indexed. It presents the data as a graph and a table of status categories.

The report groups non-indexed URLs by reason, such as server errors, robots.txt blocks, noindex directives, or duplicate content, and shows example URLs for each status. Google notes that not every URL needs to be indexed, since duplicate or alternate versions are expected to stay out of the index. The guidance also states that smaller sites, roughly under 500 pages, often do not need to rely on this report.

Examples

• Investigating excluded pages

  A site owner opens the Page Indexing report and finds a cluster of URLs grouped under 'Crawled - currently not indexed', then reviews those pages for thin content.

• Tracking indexing over time

  After a site migration, an SEO watches the report's indexed-page graph to confirm the count recovers to its previous level.

Sources

• Google Search Console Help — Page Indexing report

Related terms

• Google Search Console
  A free Google service that lets site owners monitor, maintain, and troubleshoot how their site appears in Google Search results.
• Indexing
  The process by which a search engine analyses a fetched page and stores information about it so the page can later be returned in search results.
• Noindex
  A robots directive that tells search engines not to include a page in their index, even if the URL is publicly reachable.
• Duplicate Content
  Substantively identical or very similar content that appears at more than one URL, either within a single site or across different sites.
• Soft 404
  A URL that returns an HTTP 200 status but displays content telling the user the page doesn't exist. Google treats it as a 404.

Where QueryCatch uses this

• Crawling & Indexing
• SEO Audit